ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,151, issued on May 19, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Managed memory device with integrated radio-frequency identification component for cryptographic tracking" was invented by Giuseppe Principato (Poing, Germany) and Francesco Lupo (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device includes a radio-frequency identification (RFID) component configured to communicate with an external system for transmitting a device identifier to the external system and for receiving data from the external system; one or more memory dies configured to store the data; a communication interface configured to transmit a messag...