US Patent Issued to Metaland on Nov. 25 for "Encapsulating a metal inlay with thermosetting resin and method for making a metal transaction card" (Irish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,843, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Metaland LLC (Doral, Fla.).

"Encapsulating a metal inlay with thermosetting resin and method for making a metal transaction card" was invented by David Finn (Fussen Weissensee, Germany), Darren Molloy (Killour, Ireland) and Daniel Pierrard (Killour, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a smartcard may comprise: providing a metal layer (ML) having a module opening (MO) extending from a front surface of the metal layer to a rear surface thereof; providing a sacrificial layer (SL) on the front surface of the metal layer; filling (from behind) the module opening with thermosett...