ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,435, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Mitek Systems Inc. (San Diego).

"Antenna alignment feedback using near field communication devices" was invented by Ashok Singal (San Diego), James Treitler (San Diego), Sanjay Gupta (Del Mar, Calif.), Michael Ramsbacker (Cardiff, Calif.), Jason L. Gray (La Jolla, Calif.) and Michael Hagen (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for aligning a near field communications (NFC) device and a document having an NFC antenna are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises the steps of accessing a model identifier from the device; associating the model identifier with a devic...