ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,990, issued on March 4, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, device and system for verifying UWB ranging results" was invented by Wolfgang Kuchler (Graz, Austria) and Jacek Tyminski (Lassnitzhoehe, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a method of verifying a time-of-flight based ranging result in a UWB ranging device, the method comprising: exchanging a sequence of messages between the UWB ranging device and a further UWB ranging device as part of a double-sided ranging process to obtain round times and response times at both the UWB ranging device and the further UWB ranging device; estima...