ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,816, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).
"Near-field communication method implemented within a vehicle" was invented by Michele Ciocchetta (Cugnaux, France) and Yannis Escalante (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for near-field communication implemented within a motor vehicle including steps, executed by an NFC reader, of: storing, as it is received and in a memory of the NFC reader, data pairs of portable devices located in the vicinity of the NFC reader, with each stored data pair including an application identifier corresponding to a predetermined...