ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,939, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ingenutec LLC (Knoxville, Tenn.).
"Near field communication module" was invented by Robert G. Palmer Jr. (Knoxville, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Near Field Communication (NFC) apparatus comprises a main printed circuit board and tamper printed circuit board. On the top side of the main printed circuit board are a secure memory element that stores secure applications and secure data, a secure microcontroller that contains firmware for communicating with an external HOST device, and an NFC reader chip. On the bottom side of the main printed circuit board are multiple tamper connectio...