ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,744, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus including a transceiver" was invented by Philip Axer (Hamburg, Germany) and Christian Herber (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising: a receive-input for coupling to a transmission medium; a transceiver configured to receive signals representative of one or more data transmission units from the receive-input and output said data transmission units a protocol module configured to process at least a subset of the one or more data transmission units output from the transceiver according to a protocol, said processing in...