ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,509, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Dual-radio communication device, and operating method thereof" was invented by Yi-Ju Liao (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Wei-De Wu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating method executed by a wireless communication device is provided. The method includes selecting a high-performance receiver to receive a wireless signal from a transmitting device in response to the wireless signal being a first type of signal on a high-performance radio layer; and selecting a low-power receiver or the high-performance receiver to receive the wireless si...