Patent ID: 6886246

Claim:
A method for making an article having an electronic device embedded therein comprising: providing a substrate having first and second opposing broad planar surfaces; forming an elongated electrical conductor on the first broad planar surface of the substrate; attaching an electronic device to the first broad planar surface of the substrate; providing a layer of melt-flowable adhesive proximate the first broad planar surface of the substrate, wherein the layer of melt-fiowable adhesive has a thickness that is substantially uniform and sufficient to cover the electronic device; and melt flowing the melt-flowable adhesive to the first broad planar surface of the substrate to encapsulate the electronic device thereto in the substantially uniform thickness layer of melt-flowable adhesive; wherein said forming an elongated electrical conductor includes depositing a loop antenna pattern of a conductive adhesive on the first broad planar surface of the substrate, and wherein said attaching an electrical device includes attaching at least one contact on the electronic device to one contact of the loop antenna pattern of conductive adhesive.