ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,941, issued on July 8, was assigned to GENERALPLUS TECHNOLOGY INC. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method for near field communication with serial interface microcontroller and NFC tag device using the same" was invented by Li Sheng Lo (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Pei-Chien Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for near field communication with a serial transmission microcontroller and an NFC tag device using the same are provided in the present invention. The method includes: providing a serial interface microcontroller; capturing an NFC carrier signal from an NFC LC resonant circuit; performing a frequency division to the NFC ca...