ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,006, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Single cluster formation technique for ultra-wideband (UWB) time difference of arrival (TDoA)" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Pascal Thubert (Roquefort-les-Pins, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single cluster formation technique for Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) may be provided. A primary anchor may be elected from a plurality of anchors. Then a structure of a cluster formed by the plurality of anchors may be collected by the primary anchor. A Direction-Oriented Directed Acyclic Graph (DODAG) may be built for the clu...