ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,963, issued on March 24, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Device, method, and system for channel switching" was invented by Sri Anand Sesha Krishna Pochiraju (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sagar Ashok Tamhane (Fremont, Calif.), Po Wei Tan (San Jose, Calif.), Liwen Chu (San Ramon, Calif.), Manish Kumar (Clarksburg, Md.), Rui Cao (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Hongyuan Zhang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a device, a method, and a system for channel switching are disclosed. In an embodiment, the device includes a wireless network interface device implemented on one or more integrated circuits (ICs), where ...