ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,622, issued on July 28, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Generating non-redundant physical, logical, and location-specific network endpoint identifiers" was invented by Sebastian Bohn (Dresden, Germany), Kai Wu (San Diego), Milan Brejl (Roznov pod Radhostem, Czech Republic), Timothy Strauss (Granger, Ind.) and Fahad Qazi (Steningehojden, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "First information identifying a first one of a target circuit or a radio frequency (RF) tag is conveyed to a second one of the target circuit or the RF tag. Second information identifying the second one of the target circuit and the RF tag is t...