ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,649, issued on June 24, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Consumable component apparatus" was invented by Peter Laackmann (Munich) and Markus Gail (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A consumable component apparatus including a receptacle region for receiving configured to receive a substance or material which is consumed under the control of a consumer device, an authentication circuit configured to authenticate the consumer device, and a switch coupled to the authentication circuit. The authentication circuit is configured to control the switch in such a way that the consumable component apparatus i...