Avery Dennison Smartrac (Glendale, California) recently launched its AD Minidose U9 RAIN RFID inlay for pharmaceutical applications, unlocking critical RFID value for healthcare, pharmacies, and laboratory asset management. AD Minidose U9 is one of the smallest products on the market to receive ARC certification (Spec S) from Auburn University’s RFID Lab, and to be approved for use by the DoseID industry consortium.
In times of upheaval, the automotive and aviation industry is focusing on printed electronics. Under the focus topic of Mobility, LOPEC, the international trade fair and conference for flexible, organic and printed electronics, will showcase innovations for traffic on land and in the air. LOPEC will be held from 22-24 March 2022 in the ICM – Internationales Congress Center München at the Messe München Exhibition Centre.
ASCA, an organic photovoltaics (OPV) global leader and part of the French ARMOR Group, has purchased the most relevant device- and module-related intellectual property (IP) portfolio regarding printed OPV. At the end of 2021, ASCA took patents on OPV production and technology from the Darmstadt, Germany-based leading science and technology company Merck. With this purchase, the company has become the largest portfolio owner with regard to printed OPV worldwide through tripling its number of patents.
