ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,686, issued on March 3, was assigned to SHL Medical AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"RFID tag enabled shield assembly" was invented by Markus Bauss (Lengdorf, Germany) and Thomas Dietl (Farkenfels, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an RDID tag enabled shield assembly that provides a sterile enclosure of a medicament delivery port of a medicament container. The container can be a needleless pre-filled syringe, a vial, a cartridge, or a collapsible bag or pouch. The RFID tag is fixedly attached to one or more components of the shield assembly through co-molding or another form of permanent or removable atta...