ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,047, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of narrowband discovery for wireless devices" was invented by Chittabrata Ghosh (Fremont, Calif.), Carlos Horacio Aldana (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kangjin Yoon (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer readable medium for performing narrowband device discovery include a first ultra-wideband (UWB) device that transitions from a first narrowband channel to a second narrowband channel of a plurality of defined narrowband channels, to broadcast a discovery beacon for receipt by one o...