News and Media: Press Release

Intelligent Devices Inc., a subsidiary of Canadian smart packaging experts Information Mediary Corp., has been awarded a sweeping anti-tampering Intelligent Active Packaging patent in the US and Europe. In its actual implementation it involves an ECM® (Electronic Content Monitor) RFID sensor tag and printed traces on a packaging box detecting openings and unauthorized openings or penetration.

Information Mediary Corporation and its affiliates retain the exclusive rights to use XINK formulations for its award-winning Med-ic Digital Package and pharmaceutical smart label technologies. Information Mediary Corporation will continue to provide pharmaceutical packaging and smart label technologies design, development and prototype services in their Ottawa-based Intelligent and Active Packaging Laboratory facilities.

Information Mediary Corporation has begun to supply over 30,000 of its Med-ic® RFID smart sensor labels for use in a large multi-year COPD macrolide study. The study, sponsored by NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) will be enrolling over 1100 patients with moderate-to-severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), with emphasis on the prevention and management of exacerbations of the disease.

The technology leaders at the OMET Company of Lecco, Italy are following the development of UHF RFID labels with great interest, carrying out research in this strongly developing technology. Research on applications and production of printed paper RFID antennae has begun in earnest with the production and testing of flexographically printed UHF antennas.

The future of inexpensive on-press manufactured RFID transponders has arrived and it will be unveiled for the first time ever to the general public at LabelExpo Europe 2005 held in Brussels from September 21-24, 2005.

XINK Laboratories Ltd. of Ottawa, Canada is pleased to announce the world's first successful on-press manufacture of fully functional UHF RFID transponder labels.