ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,795, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Communication device and operating method" was invented by Mark Feichtinger (Graz, Austria), Johannes Stahl (Graz, Austria) and Ulrich Andreas Muehlmann (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a communication device is provided, comprising: a front-end configured to receive an analog input signal, wherein the front-end comprises an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the analog input signal into a digital signal; a digital signal processor configured to receive and process said dig...