IEEEtran - How to include ORCID in TeX/PDF with PdfLatex

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This question led to a new package:
orcidlink

I would like to display the ORCID id in an author list in an IEEEtran pdf, like that:

Is there a standard way to include it in an IEEEtran article with PdfLaTeX?
I used two approaches from Is there a standard way to include ORCID in TeX / PDF?, but I failed.
One is to insert the ORCID icon in the author list. I used the blow code:
author{Ali Al-Obaidi href{https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000}{includegraphics[scale=1]{figures/orcid_16x16.png}}}

where orchid_16x16.png is provided in the link https://orcid.org/trademark-and-id-display-guidelines. But the result is that the icon is not clear enough, even I replaced it with a different size.
The other approach is to use the academicons package, like that:
usepackage{academicons}
definecolor{orcidlogocol}{HTML}{A6CE39}
author{AAA href{https://orcid.org/0000-0000-0000-0000}{textcolor{orcidlogocol}{aiOrcid}}}

However, the result is like that:

And I also got two errors: "Latex Error: Encoding scheme 'TU' unknown" and "Bad character code (59865)".
In the latest academicons.sty (see ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts/academicons/academicons.sty), academicons use the font TU. However, it seems that the compiler PdfLateX cannot support this font.
Thus, is there anyone that knows a standard way to include it in an IEEEtran article with PdfLaTeX? Please help me.

Milo · Accepted Answer

This answer has been packaged into the orcidlink package on CTAN by  @duetosymmetry

Here is a pdflatex solution which uses tikz and the original .svg of the orcid icon.

Here are the steps:

Using the svg.path TikZ library you can faithfully replicate the icon.

I've used the scalerel package to scale the icon to the size of | (a vertical bar). This means it scales nicely with the size of the font. No special reason for choosing | other than it makes the size and placement roughly match the guidelines on the orcid website, which illustrate the icon placement should look something like this:

This has all been wrapped in a command called orcidicon which takes as an input the orcid code, e.g. orcidicon{0000-0000-0000-0000}.

href takes care of making it hyperlinked.

Note to get a bit of additional spacing after the logo I've used , to add some thinspace.
Inspired by Using TikZ to create a custom word which combines an svg image and text
CODE
documentclass{IEEEtran}
usepackage{scalerel}
usepackage{tikz}
usetikzlibrary{svg.path}

definecolor{orcidlogocol}{HTML}{A6CE39}
tikzset{
  orcidlogo/.pic={
    fill[orcidlogocol] svg{M256,128c0,70.7-57.3,128-128,128C57.3,256,0,198.7,0,128C0,57.3,57.3,0,128,0C198.7,0,256,57.3,256,128z};
    fill[white] svg{M86.3,186.2H70.9V79.1h15.4v48.4V186.2z}
                 svg{M108.9,79.1h41.6c39.6,0,57,28.3,57,53.6c0,27.5-21.5,53.6-56.8,53.6h-41.8V79.1z M124.3,172.4h24.5c34.9,0,42.9-26.5,42.9-39.7c0-21.5-13.7-39.7-43.7-39.7h-23.7V172.4z}
                 svg{M88.7,56.8c0,5.5-4.5,10.1-10.1,10.1c-5.6,0-10.1-4.6-10.1-10.1c0-5.6,4.5-10.1,10.1-10.1C84.2,46.7,88.7,51.3,88.7,56.8z};
  }
}

newcommandorcidicon[1]{href{https://orcid.org/#1}{mbox{scalerel*{
begin{tikzpicture}[yscale=-1,transform shape]
pic{orcidlogo};
end{tikzpicture}
}{|}}}}

usepackage{hyperref} %<--- Load after everything else

begin{document}

title{Title goes here}
author{John Doe orcidicon{0000-0000-0000-0000},, IEEEmembership{Senior Member, IEEE}}
maketitle

end{document}

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