US Patent Issued to NXP on July 29 for "Communication devices and operating methods" (Austrian, French, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,274, issued on July 29, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Communication devices and operating methods" was invented by Hugues Jean Marie de Perthuis (Garcelles, France), Stefan Lemsitzer (Stainz, Austria) and Srivathsa Masthi Parthasarathi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device is provided, comprising: an ultra-wideband device configured to establish a communication session with an external communication device; a secure element configured to generate a session key for use in said communication session and an authentication key derived from said session key; a processing unit configu...