ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,696, issued on May 26, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).
"Electrically charging a circuit board" was invented by Philippe Michel Levionnais (Chatillon Cedex, France) and Francois Boudet (Chatillon Cedex, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for making available electric charge in order to charge an electronic card including a near-field communication module by way of a terminal. The terminal has what is known as a reader mode in which it is able to supply power to the card in near-field mode and receive data from the card. The method includes the following steps, on the terminal, set to reade...