ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,918, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to IDEMIA FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).

"Electronic document module comprising a chip and a contact interface with an antenna connected to an I/O port of the chip, electronic document comprising such a module and method for checking a connection between the module and a corresponding antenna" was invented by Franck Bricout (Courbevoie, France), Francis Chamberot (Courbevoie, France), Cyrille Pepin (Courbevoie, France), Pierre Vaures (Courbevoie, France) and Antoine Vilain (Courbevoie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to an electronic document module comprising a...