US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on March 25 for "Method for remote provisioning of software modules in integrated circuit cards, corresponding apparatus and computer program product" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,209, issued on March 25, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Method for remote provisioning of software modules in integrated circuit cards, corresponding apparatus and computer program product" was invented by Marco Alfarano (Naples, Italy) and Sofia Massascusa (Caserta, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment the method a includes performing, by an integrated circuit (IC) card hosted in a local equipment, authentication with a contactless subscriber device when the subscriber device is within a communication range of a contactless interface of the local equipment, receiving, by the IC ...