ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,645, issued on July 14, was assigned to Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Trondheim, Norway).

"Arbitration circuit portions" was invented by Sriram Kankipati (Hyderabad, India) and Murali Mohan Thokala (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arbitration circuit portion is provided for coordinating first and second radio circuit portions arranged to transmit and/or receive radio signals. The arbitration circuit is arranged to receive a communication request signal from the first radio circuit portion and/or the second radio circuit portion; determine an arbitration outcome based at least partially on said communication request sig...