US Patent Issued to NXP on May 19 for "Proximity check for communication devices" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,679, issued on May 19, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Proximity check for communication devices" was invented by Reinhard Meindl (Graz, Austria) and Peter Thuringer (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to performing a proximity check to determine whether a transponder device is in proximity of a reader device. In an example embodiment, a method of performing a proximity check to determine whether a transponder device is in proximity of a reader device comprises: transmitting a command from the reader device to the transponder device, the command including a request for a measured re...