US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 15 for "Vehicle ranging and positioning" (California, Washington, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,857, issued on April 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Vehicle ranging and positioning" was invented by Michaela Vanderveen (Tracy, Calif.), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Sudhir Kumar Baghel (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Libin Jiang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for ranging are described. A multi-phase distributed ranging technique includes transmitting and receiving vehicle information messages during a first time interval, where the vehicle information messages include at least a vehicle identifier and resource information. The multi-phase technique further includes transmitting a...