US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET), STMICROELECTRONICS BELGIUM on Oct. 14 for "Protection of a transaction in near-field communications" (Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,853, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS (Rousset, France) and STMICROELECTRONICS BELGIUM (Machelen, Belgium).

"Protection of a transaction in near-field communications" 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: "Provided are techniques for protecting a transaction in near-field communication. Provided is an electronic device including a processor hosting an application, a near-field communication module, and a secure element distinct from the processor. The near-field communication module is configured to ide...