US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Aug. 4 for "Testing of near-field communication card and reader" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,894, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Testing of near-field communication card and reader" was invented by Nicolas Cordier (Aix-en-Provence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit comprises processing circuitry and near-field communication (NFC) circuitry comprising read/write (RW) circuitry and card emulation (CE) circuitry. The processing circuitry selectively performs a direct loopback test by (i) causing the RW circuitry to transmit first test data, (ii) causing the CE circuitry to receive the transmitted first test data, and (iii) comparing the received first ...