ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,227, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"NFC anti-relay protection" was invented by Matthias Lerch (San Francisco), Florian Galdo (Emerald Hills, Calif.) and Gordon Y. Scott (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting and preventing a relay attack in a channel on which a near field communication (NFC) action between a key holder device and a reader is attempted are disclosed. A time limit is established for polling communications between the key holder device and the reader. Each of the reader and the key holder device generates a reader random value and a device...