ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,571, issued on March 3, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Communication device and method for handling a data transmission" was invented by Tang-Hsun Tu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), I-Chih Lu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Han-Cheng Shih (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Liang-Gu Liu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Shen-Lung Liu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A host communication device includes a memory and a processing circuit. The memory includes a plurality of host buffers. The processing circuit is coupled to the memory and configured to execute instructions of: transmitting memory information associated with at ...