US Patent Issued to THALES DIS FRANCE on June 30 for "ICC reader" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,341, issued on June 30, was assigned to THALES DIS FRANCE SAS (Meudon, France).

"ICC reader" was invented by Frederic Faven (La Ciotat, France) and Jean-Francois Schuh (La Ciotat, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an ICC reader including a microcontroller configured to exchange data with an insertable ICC while the insertable ICC is inserted and powered, and with an end-user entity, an ICC connector configured to allow the exchange of data between the microcontroller and the inserted ICC, and an end-user entity interface connector configured to allow the exchange of data between the microcontroller...