Intelleflex Corporation and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation have entered into a technology transfer and license agreement that will enable Mitsubishi to build support for Intelleflex’s “extended memory” Gen2 RFID tags into its reader products for use in Japan.

This will enable Mitsubishi, which has been granted these rights on an exclusive basis among Japanese companies for the three-year term of the agreement, to deliver important new application solutions, uniquely enabled by the extended capabilities of Intelleflex’s RFID technology.

Mitsubishi plans to begin delivering reader products developed around technology secured under this agreement in June. Intelleflex tags will be available in Japan in the same time frame, through a variety of business partner channels.

Intelleflex’s tags feature 64k bits of user read/write memory, protected under sophisticated block security architecture. (Conventional Gen2 RFID tags typically support only several hundred bits of user memory.) The ability to store large amounts of information directly in tag memory is the key to enabling new portable database-powered applications, including uses in aerospace parts maintenance, manufacturing work-in-process control, advanced asset management and intelligent supply chain optimization.

Last year, Boeing selected Intelleflex as the RFID platform supplier for its intelligent parts marking program on the 787 “Dreamliner” aircraft, identifying the extended memory feature as critical enabling technology toward achievement of breakthrough goals in maintenance and repair operations. The entire “life history” of frequently serviced parts is stored in the extended memory of Intelleflex’s tag technology. As a result of the agreement, Mitsubishi will be able to deliver enhanced reader products in support of this, and many other new applications in the Japanese market.