ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,565, issued on April 14, was assigned to Scannable NZ Ltd. (Wanaka, New Zealand).
"Sewable identifier tag" was invented by Robert Partridge (Wanaka, New Zealand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a sewable identifier label, an item with a sewable identifier label, and methods of manufacture and assembly. The sewable identifier label may be a laminate enclosing an identifier tag that is relatively thin, highly pliable, and highly resilient. The item to which the sewable identifier label may be fixed may be an item that is also pliable and which in use may be moved in multiple directions and/or dimensions."
The patent...