ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,912, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Qorvo US Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Ranging with simultaneous frames" was invented by Michael McLaughlin (Dublin) and Jaroslaw Niewczas (Jozefow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a device for wireless communication are disclosed. In some embodiments, the device includes: a transceiver configured to receive a message from a second device and at least one processor. The processor is communicatively coupled to the transceiver and is configured to: generate a response message includes a SYNC portion, a start frame delimiter (SFD) portion, and a cipher portion. The SYNC portion in...