ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,600, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to STMicroelectronics Belgium (Diegem, Belgium) and STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS (Rousset, France).

"Secure element and method" 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 comprising at least one operating system including at least one application having a register associated therewith, a buffer memory, and a router having a software layer. The software layer is configured to directing first messages using a first protocol ...