ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,234, issued on March 24, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Online learning of transmission phase control for a communications device that communicates via inductive coupling" was invented by Johannes Stahl (Graz, Austria) and Ulrich Andreas Muehlmann (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for operating a communications device that communicates via inductive coupling, methods for operating an NFC device, and a communications device that communicates via inductive coupling are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method involves at the communications device, shifting a first transmission phase to obtain an u...