ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,553, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Oura Health Oy (Oulu, Finland).
"Methods and apparatus for facilitating NFC transactions" was invented by Denis Mars (San Francisco) and Simon Ratner (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a remote control device includes capturing with a biometric device biometric data associated with a user, determining with processor whether the user is authorized to interact with the smart device, in response to the biometric data, determining with the processor user data, in response to the user being authorized to interact with the smart device, receiving with a short-range...