ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,337, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Communication device and operating method" was invented by 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 receiver configured to receive one or more signals from an external communication device; a classifier configured to classify the external communication device using the signals received by the receiver and to output a corresponding classification result; and a processing unit configured ...