ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,013, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to National University of Singapore (Singapore).

"Methods and systems for near-field communication" was invented by John S Y Ho (Singapore), Rongzhou Lin (Singapore), Han-Joon Kim (Singapore), Sippanat Achavananthadith (Singapore) and Selman Ahmet Kurt (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for a near-field communication. In one aspect, a method of fabricating a relay for a near-field communication system comprises the steps of providing a flexible substrate; and providing an electric circuit on the flexible substrate, wherein the electric circuit comprises a hub inductor pa...