US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 28 for "Ultra-wide band channel access-periodic reservation" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,642, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Ultra-wide band channel access-periodic reservation" was invented by Lochan Verma (Danville, Calif.), Alexander Krebs (Munich), Yong Liu (Campbell, Calif.) and Jinjing Jiang (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and mechanisms for an out-of-band (OOB) ultra-wide band (UWB) channel arbitration and/or channel coordination scheme. A device may transmit, periodically, an advertisement packet on an advertisement channel associated with a UWB channel. The device may transmit, according to a UWB channel usage pattern indicated by the advert...