ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,652, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Communication node with interleaved ranging sessions" was invented by Stefan Lemsitzer (Stainz, Austria) and Michael Schober (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide a dual phase-locked loop (PLL) system configured to execute parallel, time shifted ranging session scheduling even if the sessions use different communication channels. Using techniques described herein, in some embodiments, a delay between ranging sessions is reduced compared to other UWB session scheduling implementations, which allows for more com...