ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,778, issued on June 24.

"Di chip, smartphone, system, and operating method" was invented by Howard Hong-Dough Lee (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DI (device identification) chip, smartphone, communication device, system, method, or operating method is rendered capable of imposing punitive damages to cybercriminals and cyberterrorisms. Comprised are operating instructions for building a DI database, setting specified DI information required, formatting DI packet, and transmitting the DI packet for verification. The DI database may comprise a banned DI list and/or a DI-Member-Only list. The punitive measure in...