ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,562, issued on July 28, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus for communication and sensing" was invented by Wilhelmus Johannes van Houtum (Sint-oedenrode, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured to control a transmitter to provide for generation of a data frame, the data frame having a fixed length and fixed predetermined number of sub-frames, and each sub-frame comprises a predetermined number of slots based on a carrier frequencies, and each slot includes a fixed number of symbol time periods; receive a data stream for transmission; define at least one communication-slot for trans...