ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,670, issued on May 13, 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: "A transaction device includes a transceiver for receiving a first message from a first smart device and a second message from a second smart devices at distances greater than a first distance, a processor for determining a first payload and first identifier for the first smart device from the first message and for determining a second payload and second identifier for the second smart device from the sec...