Patent ID: 7845569

Claim:
An integral, one-piece, resiliently flexible, planar, reusable, programmable radio frequency identification (RFID) luggage tag blank 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 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, the first cover strip including a non-porous, polymer film layer selected to receive a dye diffusion thermal transfer image; an RFID transponder assembly permanently and integrally imbedded 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 imbedded, the transponder assembly including non-volatile memory containing a non-alterable permanent unique code assigned to the transponder assembly and space to receive externally programmable information, both the code and information being transmitted by the transponder assembly upon interrogation; and a unique code permanently printed on at least one the first and second major sides of the tag, the code being unique to the tag and to the RFID assembly.