US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on May 13 for "Determining distances between broadcasting devices and receiving devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,279, issued on May 13, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Determining distances between broadcasting devices and receiving devices" was invented by Pouria Zand (Irvine, Calif.) and James Wihardja (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a broadcasting device and one or more receiving devices. The broadcast device is to broadcast an broadcast message to a set of receiving devices, wherein the broadcast message indicates that a broadcasting device is available for connection. The broadcasting device is also to receive, from a receiving device a response messages based on the broadca...