US Patent Issued to CLOVER NETWORK on March 25 for "Multi-use near field communication front end on a point of sale system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,385, issued on March 25, was assigned to CLOVER NETWORK LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Multi-use near field communication front end on a point of sale system" was invented by Ketan Patwardhan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Narayanan Gopalakrishnan (Newark, Calif.), Victor Pan (Fremont, Calif.) and James Castillo (Mountain House, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems related to near field communication (NFC) front ends for point of sale terminals are disclosed. One point of sale system includes an applications microprocessor programmed to: (i) instantiate an operating system for the point of sale system and (ii) generate a set o...