US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Jan. 13 for "Synchronized unicast ranging for UWB localization" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,336, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Synchronized unicast ranging for UWB localization" was invented by Jinzhu Chen (Troy, Mich.), Zijun Han (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Fan Bai (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Aaron Adler (Rochester Hills, Mich.), John Sergakis (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and Chuan Li (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for unicast UWB ranging includes receiving UWB sensor data from a plurality of UWB sensors. The UWB sensors include UWB anchors and a UWB tag. The method further includes assigning a priority to each of the plurality of UWB to create a schedule. Also,...