US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Dec. 23 for "Sharing secure user information using near-field communication" (Dutch, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,513, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Sharing secure user information using near-field communication" was invented by Zachary S. Ankrom (Austin, Texas), Jan Bajec (Utrecht, Netherlands) and David Allan James Drewette (Dollar, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments permit secure information exchange using lightweight data and near-field communication (NFC). A user can transmit lightweight data, such as one or more indicators (e.g., user indicator, scope indicator(s), documents indicator(s), etc.), to a receiving computing system via the user's wireless device an...