US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 5 for "Active near-field communication device facilitation of low power card detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,266, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Active near-field communication device facilitation of low power card detection" was invented by Vincent Chauvin (San Francisco), Peter M. Agboh (Burlingame, Calif.), Vusthla Sunil Reddy (Cupertino, Calif.) and Xinping Zeng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device implementing a system for NFC communication includes a processor configured to receive, from an other device, pulse signals for detecting proximity of the device with the other device. The processor is further configured to determine an interval at which the pulse signals are received fr...