ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,391, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Near-field communication receiver and operating method thereof" was invented by Yunseob Song (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a near-field communication (NFC) receiver. The NFC receiver includes at least one antenna configured to receive an amplitude modulation (AM) signal, a first analog-to-digital converter (ADC) configured to generate an in-phase (I)-sample by sampling the AM signal based on a first clock signal, a second ADC configured to generate a quadrature-phase (Q)-sample by sampling the AM signa...