US Patent Issued to Realtek Semiconductor on Oct. 28 for "Communication device and method for accelerating device discovery and identification" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,221, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Communication device and method for accelerating device discovery and identification" was invented by Yu-Fei Chou (HsinChu, Taiwan), Yang-Lin Cheng (HsinChu, Taiwan), Ming-Dao Chen (HsinChu, Taiwan) and Jang-Ming Li (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device includes a transceiver and a control circuit. The control circuit determines whether to transmit a second MKPDU in advance according to a member identifier of a peer device carried by a received first MKPDU and one or more lists maintained by the communication devic...