US 2025/0053771 A1 · MULTIFUNCTION ADHESIVE PRODUCT FOR UBIQUITOUS REALTIME TRACKING

Abstract

A low-cost, multi-function system with a form factor that unobtrusively integrates the components needed to implement a combination of different functions and also is able to perform a useful ancillary function that otherwise would have to be performed with the attendant need for additional materials, labor, and expense. An example adhesive product that integrates sensing components within a flexible adhesive structure in a way that not only provides a cost-effective platform for interconnecting, optimizing, and protecting the components of the tracking system but also maintains the flexibility needed to function as an adhesive product that can be deployed seamlessly and unobtrusively into various applications and workflows, including person and object tracking applications, and asset management workflows such as manufacturing, storage, shipping, delivery, and other logistics associated with moving products and other physical objects.

Claims3

Dependent claims

A wireless communication device, comprising:

a flexible cover;
a flexible substrate;
a first adhesive layer on the flexible substrate;
a connection to a second wireless communication device;
and
between the flexible cover and the flexible substrate, a device layer comprising:
a wireless communication system,
a processor coupled to the wireless communication system,
an energy source coupled to the wireless communication system and the processor, and
at least one non-transitory processor-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, configures the processor to perform operations comprising controlling the wireless communication system to communicate with one or more network nodes of an associated location tracking system to determine a location of the wireless communication device.

7 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/744,363Filed 14 Jun 2024

Priority

14 Dec 2016

Published

13 Feb 2025

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification18 codes

G06K 19/07773
The record carrier being capable of non-contact communication, e.g. constructional details of the antenna of a non-contact smart card: antenna details
B32B 37/06
Methods or apparatus for laminating, e.g. by curing or by ultrasonic bonding: characterised by the heating method
B32B 37/12
Methods or apparatus for laminating, e.g. by curing or by ultrasonic bonding: characterised by using adhesives
C09J 7/38
Characterised by the adhesive composition: pressure-sensitive adhesives [PSA]

Family

Application62/434,218Us provisional application · filed 14 Dec 2016

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Application15/842,861Continuation · filed 14 Dec 2017

Application16/383,353Continuation · filed 12 Apr 2019

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Application17/714,146Continuation · filed 6 Apr 2022

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