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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2008
Applicants:
Kenneth L. Greenlee, Raleigh, NC (US);
Christian L. Hunt, Cary, NC (US);
Anne I. Ryan, Durham, NC (US);
Inventors:
Kenneth L. Greenlee, Raleigh, NC (US);
Christian L. Hunt, Cary, NC (US);
Anne I. Ryan, Durham, NC (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention discloses an active data tag device () which includes an expiration event generator (), and a memory () which has tag data () stored therein. Upon the occurrence () of and expiration event, the tag disables access to the tag data.