ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,052, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Dual-band radio frequency identification tag antenna for metallic objects" was invented by Rui Xu (Singapore), Zhongxiang Shen (Singapore), Jingyuan Tan (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Benaya Christo (Herzogenaurach, Germany) and Boon Siew Han (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-band RFID tag antenna for mounting on a metallic object includes a dielectric substrate having first and second surfaces; a conductive layer on the first surface that is configured to be attached to a surface of the metallic object; an integrated circu...