US Patent Issued to NXP on June 10 for "Ultra-wide band distance determination with an angle-of-arrival based disturbance compensation" (Austrian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,496, issued on June 10, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhove, Netherlands).

"Ultra-wide band distance determination with an angle-of-arrival based disturbance compensation" was invented by Pablo Corbalan Pelegrin (Callosa de Segura, Spain), Michael Schober (Graz, Austria) and David Veit (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a ultra-wide band (UWB) communication device, comprising: i) a UWB antenna, configured to receive a UWB signal from a further UWB communication device, and ii) a control device, configured to iia) determine an angle of arrival (Beta) based on the received UWB signal, iib) determine a dista...