US 12,566,937 B2 · Wearable device for data storage and exchange

Abstract

Wearable ring using near field communications (NFC) to store, receive, and transmit information. A ring can be made from silver or gold materials, the ring band having a first unfinished section with a recess for retaining an NFC chip and antenna and a cut or broken section creating a thin vertical line inside the ring from which a signal can escape. The antenna is a copper wire wrapped around the ring, in the recess of the unfinished band, before being covered with a second layer of metal having a non-metallic section covering the cut or broken section allowing the NFC signal to escape from the inner confines/recess of the ring. The antenna is turned around the ring and soldered to a near field communications (NFC) chip. The ring uses the power from the NFC chip, which communicates via magnetic induction providing a reading distance up to 5 cm.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A process of manufacture of a wearable device using near field communications (NFC) to store, receive, and transmit information, comprising the steps of:

creating a first bottom/base layer part of a wearable device defining the inner external surface and creating an inner space or channel;
covering the inner space or channel of the first bottom/base layer part of the wearable device with a top layer created from a metal sheet formed to match the shape of the inner space or channel of the first bottom/base layer part;
the first bottom/base layer part and top layer are soldered together;
and
a top layer is soldered to the edges of the first bottom/base layer part of the wearable device in order to create/keep a hollow space inside between the first bottom/base layer part and the top layer.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Wearable device for data storage and exchange

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Abstract

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