US Patent Issued to NXP on April 29 for "Network device, communication system and method for the network device" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,170, issued on April 29, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Network device, communication system and method for the network device" was invented by Hubertus Gerardus Hendrikus Vermeulen (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Lu Lu Chan (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a network device comprising: a first input interface, a first output interface, and a second output interface, wherein the network device is configured to change from a first state, referred to as a time state, to a second state, referred to as a spatial state, and vice versa, wherein the network device is configure...