ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,712, issued on March 18, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Communication device and method of operation" was invented by Filippo Casamassima (Thal, Austria), David Veit (Graz, Austria), Dorian Haslinger (Nestelbach bei Graz, Austria) and Wolfgang Eber (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: an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication unit configured to carry out UWB communication with an external communication device; a plurality of antennas operatively coupled to said UWB communication unit, at least one in...