ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,465, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Wearable device, smart card and system" was invented by Josef Gruber (Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab, Austria), Walther Pachler (Graz, Austria) and Andreas Woerle (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device including an antenna structure, a chip having a receiver which is electrically coupled to the antenna structure and is configured to receive radio signals by means of the antenna structure, and a trigger device which is arranged in or on the wearable device, which device comprises electrically conductive material and which is conf...