US Patent Issued to ORANGE on July 21 for "Method and device for adapting a near-field communication" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,409, issued on July 21, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method and device for adapting a near-field communication" was invented by Philippe Michel Levionnais (Chatillon Cedex, France) and Olivier Lepetit (Chatillon Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for adapting a communication from a mobile terminal equipped with a near-field communication module. The mobile terminal is able to be placed in NFC mode or in IBC mode to carry out contactless transactions. It is able to receive a message in an electromagnetic field over a near-field channel. The method includes, on the mobile terminal...