US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 11 for "Management of near field communications using a low power express mode of an electronic device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,794, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Management of near field communications using a low power express mode of an electronic device" was invented by Yong Wang (Cupertino, Calif.), Gordon Y. Scott (Cupertino, Calif.), Andrew C. Chang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Scott A. Williams (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing near field communications during a low power express mode of an electronic device are provided that may make credentials of a near field communication ("NFC") component appropriately secure and appropriately accessible whi...