ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,633, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Wireless communication device and method that utilize spread spectrum modulation to hide vendor information" was invented by Ming-Zhi Guo (Suzhou, China) and Zuo-Hui Peng (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication method includes: modulating, by a device, a string a string to be transmitted in a physical layer according to a spread spectrum sequence (SSS) code corresponding to a vendor of the device when the string is a specific data string of a packet; demodulating, by another device, the packet according to a first SS...