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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2019
Idex Biometrics Asa, Oslo, NO;
Anthony Michael Eaton, Hampshire, GB;
Peter Eckehard Kollig, Hampshire, GB;
Keith Ahluwalia, Wiltshire, GB;
Tuck Weng Poon, Hampshire, GB;
IDEX Biometrics ASA, Oslo, NO;
Abstract
A device comprising: an antenna; a power harvesting circuit for harvesting power from a radio frequency field received at the antenna in order to power functions of the device; a communication unit coupled to the antenna for transmitting and receiving signals by means of the antenna, the communication device being configured to communicate according to a protocol in which a party to a communication session deems the session to have timed out if during a predetermined period it does not receive a signal from another party to the session; and a module comprising a processing circuit; the device being configured to interrupt the operation of the module when the communication unit is transmitting a signal by means of the antenna.