ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,894, issued on March 18, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS (Rousset, France) and STMICROELECTRONICS (ALPS) SAS (Grenoble, France).

"Electronic device powering" was invented by Alexandre Tramoni (Le Beausset, France) and Patrick Arnould (Voreppe, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for powering an electronic device. The electronic device includes at least one universal integrated circuit card or at least one secure element; at least one power supply circuit for said card or secure element; and at least one near field communication module. When the near field communication mo...