US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics, STMicroelectronics (Rousset) on July 7 for "NFC device position finder" (Taiwanese, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,122, issued on July 7, was assigned to STMicroelectronics Ltd (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS (Rousset, France).

"NFC device position finder" was invented by Nicolas Cordier (Aix-en-Provence, France) and Chia-Hao Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided that is implemented by a first NFC device configured in reader mode. The method includes evaluating an information about the coupling between the first NFC device and a second NFC device configured in card mode, as a function of the position of an antenna of the first NFC device with respect to an antenna of the second NFC devic...