US Patent Issued to NXP on Feb. 10 for "Method and device for time-of-flight estimation in a communications system" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,869, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and device for time-of-flight estimation in a communications system" was invented by Michael Schober (Graz, Austria), David Veit (Graz, Austria) and Stefan Tertinek (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for estimating a time-of-flight (TOF) in a wireless communication between first and second devices. The method includes receiving a signal, transmitted from the second device, at first and second antennas of the first device. The second antenna is spaced apart from the first antenna on the first device. A difference in arriv...