Patent ID: 8350702

Claim:
A combination Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS)/Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) security tag, comprising: a housing having: a top interior surface; a bottom interior surface opposite the top interior surface; a first compartment; and a second compartment, each of the first compartment and the second compartment having a corresponding first longitudinal side and second longitudinal side opposite the first longitudinal side, the first longitudinal side of the first compartment being adjacent the second longitudinal side of the second compartment; an EAS component situated within the first compartment; and an RFID component situated within the second compartment, the RFID component comprising: an antenna inlay having an integrated circuit; and a key structure positioning the integrated circuit such that the integrated circuit is closer to the first side of the second compartment than to the second side of the second compartment when the antenna inlay is inserted within the second component.