US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on Jan. 13 for "Contact chip reader support for NFC-enabled devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,631, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Contact chip reader support for NFC-enabled devices" was invented by Yuexi Chen (Foster City, Calif.) and Mustafa Top (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed and includes communicating, by a bridge apparatus comprising a controller via a contact interface in the bridge apparatus, with a portable device. The method also includes transmitting, by a first antenna of the bridge apparatus, a wireless signal comprising a contact protocol indicator to a second antenna of a user device. The method also includes rec...