ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,902, issued on July 22, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Noncontact communication medium, magnetic tape cartridge, noncontact communication system, operation method of noncontact communication medium, and program" was invented by Kenji Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A noncontact communication medium performs communication with an external device in a noncontact manner. The noncontact communication medium includes a resonance circuit, a regulator that generates operating power, a variable resistor, a switcher, and a control circuit. The processing circuit generates a response signal corresponding to a ...