ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,130, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Angle of arrival-based location determination using periodic advertising synchronization" was invented by Tingting Liu (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Nicolas Graube (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, processes, and computer-readable media for wireless communications. For example, a process can include receiving, from a network entity, synchronization information associated with a first set of periodic advertisements (PAs). A first time offset from a reference time can be determined based on the synchronization i...