ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,644, issued on July 1, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Wallet, database system and method for producing a wallet" was invented by Walther Pachler (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wallet including an electronic data storage unit for storing wallet information, and a data interface configured to provide a read access to the electronic data storage unit. A controller of the wallet is configured to control the wallet at a first point in time in a first operating mode, in which there is a restriction for the read access to the wallet information, and to control the wallet at a later second poi...