ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,052, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Localization with reduced power consumption" was invented by Stefan Tertinek (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a system is provided for facilitating localizing an external device, the system comprising: at least one UWB communication node; a controller operatively coupled to said UWB communication node, wherein the controller is configured to switch the UWB communication node between a ranging mode of operation and a radar mode of operation in dependence on an estimated distance between ...