ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,934, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Ultra-wideband power usage optimization" was invented by Sharath Ananth (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device may determine, via ultra-wideband ranging, that the computing device is proximate to a second computing device paired with the computing device. The computing device may determine that the second computing device is abie to perform ultra-wideband ranging with a particular set of one or more devices. The computing device may, in response to determining that the computing device is proximate to the second computing device...