ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,777, issued on July 14, was assigned to SOLANA MOBILE INC. (Chicago).

"Portable memory device configured for host device to manage access to digital assets" was invented by Jason Sean Gagne-Keats (Cupertino, Calif.) and Gary Anderson (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system can include a memory card that is removably and securely coupled to a computing device. In one example, the system can cause operations to be performed to determine that the computing device is authorized to communicate with a particular memory card when the memory card is communicatively coupled to the computing device. If communication...