US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics Austria on Dec. 16 for "NFC loop antenna in the vicinity of a metallic structure, and method for operating this antenna" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,627, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to STMicroelectronics Austria GmbH (Graz, Austria).

"NFC loop antenna in the vicinity of a metallic structure, and method for operating this antenna" was invented by Thomas Poetscher (Deutschfeistritz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a device includes an electrically conductive structure, a near field communication (NFC) reader including a support supporting an electrically conductive NFC loop antenna system located in a vicinity of the electrically conductive structure and a component configured to excite the loop antenna system with a current, wherein the loop antenna sys...