Patent ID: 7937829

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a conductive grid for attachment to a blister package such that expulsion of an article from a blister of said package will rupture a conductive trace included as a component of said grid, comprising the steps of: preparing an electronic tag having at least microcontroller means, capacitor means, oscillator means, resistor means and diode means thereon; transferring tag identification information to said microcontroller means; installing battery power means to said tag for providing electrical power to said microcontroller means; verifying the integrity of said tag and the components printing a predetermined pattern of conductive traces on a substrate, said pattern being adapted to place said traces in alignment with the blisters of the blister package; verifying resistance levels associated with said traces to ensure that the resistance levels are within predetermined limits; permanently connecting the tag to said grid such that defined connection points of said tag are conductively connected to defined portions of said traces; verifying the integrity of the grid including the conductive traces and the tag; and making the grid available for assembly to the blister package.