ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,988, issued on May 12, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Communication device and method for monitoring a wireless communication exchange" was invented by Mihai-Ionut Stanciu (Bucharest, Romania), Zahir Smail (Cairon, France), Khurram Waheed (Austin, Texas) and John Edward Vandermeer (Spicewood, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication exchange between two wireless communication devices is monitored. A communication device configured to function as a Sniffer device synchronizes the communication device to a frequency and a timing employed between the two wireless communication devices on a main wireless commun...