US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on June 23 for "NFC accessory detection without magnetometer" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,381, issued on June 23, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"NFC accessory detection without magnetometer" was invented by Alexandre Tramoni (Le Beausset, France) and Remy Ferroul (Trets, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description relates to a mobile device comprising a near-field communication router and an antenna, coupled to the router via at least one impedance matching circuit between at least two impedance values. A first impedance value is selected to communicate with a near-field communication device of a first type in the presence of a near-field communication device of a second...