ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,762, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Narrowband communication for ultra-wideband communication" was invented by Bin Tian (San Diego), Pooria Pakrooh (San Diego), Le Nguyen Luong (San Diego), Koorosh Akhavan (San Diego), Youhan Kim (Saratoga, Calif.), Maarten Menzo Wentink (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Tevfik Yucek (San Jose, Calif.), Olaf Josef Hirsch (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Didier Johannes Richard Van Nee (Tull en 't Waal, Netherlands) and Vincent Knowles Jones (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspe...