 In 2002, Philips teamed up with Sony to elaborate the NFC standard.Then Philips Semiconductors applyed for the six fundamental patents of NFC, invented by the Austrian and French engineers Franz Amtmann and Philippe Maugars who received the European Inventor Award in 2015.In July 2004, Sony, who had implemented the contactless RFID smart card FeliCa in Japan, introduced the system (literal translation