ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,451, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Data storage" was invented by Jos George (Kochi, India) and Dominique Chiaroni (Antony, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising a first part (110) which comprises a first light-based communication port (114) and a network interface (112), a second part (120) which comprises a non-volatile memory (122) and a second light-based communication port (124), and wherein the apparatus is configured to deactivate at least one of the first light-based communication p...