ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,046, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Ouraring Inc. (San Francisco).
"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: "An access control system includes a first controller having a first antenna interface for broadcasting identifying data to local devices, for receiving ephemeral ID signals, token signals or payload data from local devices, and a first processor for determining a first authentication when an ephemeral ID signal or a token from a first local device is determined to be valid, for determining a second authen...