US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics France, STMicroelectronics (Rousset), STMicroelectronics Razvoj Polprevodnikov D.O.O. on Sept. 1 for "NFC device detection" (French, Slovene, Slovenian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,231, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to STMicroelectronics France (Montrouge, France), STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS (Rousset, France) and STMicroelectronics Razvoj Polprevodnikov D.O.O. (Ljubljana, Slovenia).

"NFC device detection" was invented by Alexandre Tramoni (Le Beausset, France), Kosta Kovacic (Orehova vas, Slovenia), Florent Sibille (Grenoble, France), Nicolas Cordier (Aix-en-Provence, France), Anthony Tornambe (Rousset, France), Jean Remi Ruiz (Greasque, France) and Guillaume Jaunet (Pegomas, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A near-field communication circuit of a first NFC device alternates, in low power mode, bet...