ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,789, issued on June 3, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (ROUSSET) SAS (Rousset, France) and STMicroelectronics Belgium (Diegem, Belgium).

"Secure element and method for managing message communication protocols" was invented by Olivier Van Nieuwenhuyze (Wezembeek-Oppem, Belgium) and Alexandre Charles (Auriol, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description discloses a secure element and a communication method, configured to implement at least one first application, and including a circuit configured to record routing data and a list and parameters of communication protocols compatible with the first application, verify ...