ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,085, issued on May 27, was assigned to THALES DIS FRANCE SAS (Meudon, France).

"Method for detecting that a secure element has been temporarily disconnected from a device, and corresponding device" was invented by Ly Thanh Phan (Gemenos, France), Vincent Dany (Gemenos, France) and Mireille Pauliac (Gemenos, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting that a removable secure element has been temporarily disconnected from a first device includes: Providing by the secure element to the first device a first Temporal Global Identity; Entering the first device in the sleeping mode; If the secure element is inserted and use...