US Patent Issued to T-Mobile Innovations on Dec. 16 for "System for enabling and disabling equipment using dual RFID chips" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,334, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC.

"System for enabling and disabling equipment using dual RFID chips" was invented by Robert Keith Butler (Overland Park, Kan.) and Lyle W. Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured to control operation of a product. The apparatus includes an integrated RFID tag embedded in the product and configured to communicate with an external user device. The integrated RFID tag stores a first working key associated with the product and is further configured to receive a second working key transmitted from the external user device. The a...