Permanent RFID luggage tag with security features

An integral, one-piece, resiliently flexible, planar, reusable, programmable radio frequency identification (RFID) luggage tag comprising:

• a planar flexible sheet core having major planar opposing first and second sides, the core including at least first and second core strips of flexible, microporous polymer material fixedly and permanently joined together, the microporosity being provided by pores located substantially throughout the microporous polymer material;
• a first non-porous, polymer film cover strip integrally and permanently secured to the first major outer side of the core, the first cover strip being coextensive with and forming a first outer side of the tag;
• a first RFID transponder assembly operating at a first frequency and a second RFID transponder assembly operating at a second frequency different from the first frequency permanently and integrally embedded between the first and second first core strips, partially collapsing the porosity of the core strip material enough to maintain an essentially uniform thickness with the transponder assembly embedded, at least one of the first and second transponder assemblies including non-volatile memory containing a non-alterable permanent code uniquely assigned to the transponder assembly and at least one of the first and second transponder assemblies containing a programmable memory portion with space to store information externally programmed into the portion;
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• at least one of a phone number and email address of an ultimate designated recipient permanently printed in a first variable data field of the tag in a machine readable, two dimensional bar code format.

An integral, one-piece, resiliently flexible, planar, reusable, programmable radio frequency identification (RFID) luggage tag comprising:

• a planar flexible sheet core having major planar opposing first and second sides, the core including at least first and second core strips of flexible, microporous polymer material fixedly and permanently joined together, the microporosity being provided by pores located substantially throughout the microporous polymer material;
• a first non-porous, polymer film cover strip integrally and permanently secured to the first major outer side of the core, the first cover strip being coextensive with and forming a first outer side of the tag;
• a first RFID transponder assembly operating at a first frequency and a second RFID transponder assembly operating at a second frequency different from the first frequency permanently and integrally embedded between the first and second first core strips, partially collapsing the porosity of the core strip material enough to maintain an essentially uniform thickness with the transponder assembly embedded, at least one of the first and second transponder assemblies including non-volatile memory containing a non-alterable permanent code uniquely assigned to the transponder assembly and at least one of the first and second transponder assemblies containing a programmable memory portion with space to store information externally programmed into the portion;
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• at least one of a phone number and email address of an ultimate designated recipient encoded into the programmable memory portion of the at least one of the first and second transponder assemblies so as to be transmitted by at least one of the first and second transponder assemblies upon interrogation.