ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,869, issued on April 1, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Wall-mounted NFC device that self disables upon removal" was invented by Anubhav Khanna (Seattle), Kaushik Mani (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gerald J. Nievera (Las Vegas), Andrew Bradley Palmer (Austin, Texas), Sai Praveen Gummadi (Surrey, Canada), Robi Thomas (Round Rock, Texas), Cameron Sautner (Las Vegas), Rishabh Sanghvi (Fremont, Calif.), Pavel Samarkin (Los Altos, Calif.) and Ram Nikhil Dodda (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure presents wall-mounted near field communication systems and related methods. One such system comprises...