US Patent Issued to Apple on July 8 for "Techniques for synchronizing ultra-wide band communications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,280, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for synchronizing ultra-wide band communications" was invented by Robert Golshan (San Francisco), Adwait N. Dongare (Berkeley, Calif.) and Robert W. Brumley (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for ranging for a mobile device with one or more electronic devices using communication circuitry implementing a wireless protocol can include storing a schedule for a plurality of communication sessions. The technique can include broadcasting the advertising packets during a selected number of available time slots of a second time period...