ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,226, issued on July 15, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Wireless ranging system" was invented by Shusaku Umeda (Tokyo), Akinori Taira (Tokyo) and Hiroyasu Sano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless ranging system includes a ranging terminal that transmits a wireless signal including a ranging signal and a communication signal indicating an order of ranging with respect to a first ranging target terminal and a second ranging target terminal, and a first ranging target terminal and a second ranging target terminal that, when receiving the wireless signal, respectively transmits a first response signals an...