US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on April 22 for "Higher accuracy secure phase-based ranging and direction finding" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,567, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Higher accuracy secure phase-based ranging and direction finding" was invented by Victor Simileysky (San Jose, Calif.), Kiran Uln (Pleasanton, Calif.), James Wihardja (Tustin, Calif.) and Pouria Zand (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for improving the accuracy of a secure phase-based ranging procedure and a Direction Finding procedure. The method includes receiving radio frequency signals from a second communication device. The method includes operating in a first mode including generating first location data base...