US Patent Issued to NXP on Jan. 13 for "Angle-of-arrival estimation method for arbitrary antenna spacings and corresponding communication device" (Austrian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,731, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Angle-of-arrival estimation method for arbitrary antenna spacings and corresponding communication device" was invented by Michael Schober (Graz, Austria), Pablo Corbalan Pelegrin (Callosa de Segura, Spain) and Ghiath Al-kadi (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining an angle of arrival at a communication device is described. The method comprises performing a message exchange between the communication device and a further communication device. The message exchange comprises receiving at least one first message associated with a fir...