ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,807, issued on June 3, was assigned to VeEX Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Near-field communication (NFC) on test device" was invented by Paul Chang (Fremont, Calif.), Cyrille Morelle (Los Altos, Calif.), Ildefonso Miguel Polo (San Jose, Calif.), Cesar Kyle Della Casil (Santa Clara, Calif.), Monica Hua (San Jose, Calif.), Tri Khai Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.), Eugene Belianka (Fanipol, Belarus) and Dmitriy Popesku (Minsk, Belarus).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured to perform operations comprising determining, by a device, one or more parameters and associated parameter val...