ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,580, issued on June 10, was assigned to INNOVALOR B.V. (Enschede, Netherlands).
"NFC-chip reader" was invented by Martijn Diederik Oostdijk (Weirden, Netherlands), Tom Nicolaas Van Wietmarschen (Enschede, Netherlands), Wilhelmus Noort (Enschede, Netherlands) and Maarten Wegdam (Borne, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Near field communication (NFC) is used for banking, access control or identification. The NFC-chip contains data verifying the identity of the holder, which is read by an NFC-chip reader. NFC-chip readers are now often online or stand-alone terminals, which may be trusted or untrusted. Trusted terminals may req...