US Patent Issued to Drayson Technologies (Europe) on June 17 for "Method and apparatus for controlling circuitry with particular application to smartcards" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,363, issued on June 17, was assigned to Drayson Technologies (Europe) Ltd. (London).

"Method and apparatus for controlling circuitry with particular application to smartcards" was invented by Victor Diaz (London), Vitor Freitas (London) and Alison Lloyd (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smartcard circuit for control of a near field RF communications chip (500) of a smartcard (2000) is described. The circuit comprises a primary inductive coupler (1003) for connection to a near field antenna (2002) of a smart card for obtaining an RF electrical signal from the antenna, and a secondary inductive coupler (1005) arranged for induct...