US Patent Issued to Dynamics on April 22 for "Cards, devices, EMV contacts, and methods of manufacturing cards, devices and EMV contacts" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,816, issued on April 22, was assigned to Dynamics Inc. (Cheswick, Pa.).

"Cards, devices, EMV contacts, and methods of manufacturing cards, devices and EMV contacts" was invented by Norman E. O'Shea (Seven Fields, Pa.), W. Barry Brown (Cheswick, Pa.), Jeffrey D. Mullen (Pittsburgh) and Geoffrey D. Shippee (Edgeworth, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible device, such as a powered card or processor based system, may include a connector array. The connector array may be a contact connector such as an EMV connector. The connector array may include discrete connectors connected to landing pads of a circuit board. The discrete conne...