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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2015
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Michael J. Smith, North Reading, MA (US);
Frank L. Hammond, III, Atlanta, GA (US);
Robert J. Wood, Cambridge, MA (US);
Simon G. Talbot, Boston, MA (US);
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
In a method for printing an RFID tag on an object, a deposition mask is applied to the surface of an object. With the deposition mask on the surface of the object, RFID materials are deposited on at least one portion of the surface exposed by aperture(s) in the deposition mask. In particular embodiments, RFID tags can be deposited on medical instruments.