US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS France, STMICROELECTRONICS (GRENOBLE 2) on July 15 for "Remote powered contactless card" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,255, issued on July 15, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS France (Montrouge, France) and STMICROELECTRONICS (GRENOBLE 2) SAS (Grenoble, France).

"Remote powered contactless card" was invented by Franck Montaudon (Meylan, France) and Julien Goulier (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment an electronic device includes a first electronic circuit having a capacitive element with a variable capacitance, wherein the first electronic circuit is configured to couple the capacitive element to an antenna, to measure, by successive iterations, a first analog signal representative of a variation of an instantaneous ele...