US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Singapore) on March 3 for "Electronic apparatus and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,882, issued on March 3, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Electronic apparatus and control method" was invented by Hideto Horikoshi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Keiichi Yoshitomi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus is provided including an antenna usable for communications of an RFID and an NFC, an RFID control unit configured to control the communication of the RFID, an NFC control unit configured to control the communication of the NFC, and a control unit configured to control whether to connect either the RFID control unit or the NFC control unit to the antenna. The control uni...