ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,571, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Austin, Texas).

"Near-field communication systems and methods for reducing beat frequency signals in the near-field communication systems" was invented by Mark Feichtinger (Graz, Austria), Wolfgang Hrauda (Gratwein, Austria) and Ulrich Andreas Muehlmann (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reader of a communication system and method uses a synthesized control signal to cancel a beat frequency signal of an incoming signal, where the beat frequency signal is due to a magnetic coupling of the reader with another reader. The control signal is synthesized using at least one pa...