US Patent Issued to Universal Electronics on Dec. 16 for "Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a hardware token reader" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,779, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a hardware token reader" was invented by Michael Archbold (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for reducing power consumption of a battery-powered, hardware token reader. A secure access module within the battery-powered hardware token reader is disabled by a main processor while the battery-powered hardware token reader is in a low-power mode of operation. The main processor also enables communications directly with a tag transceiver and then places itself ...