US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 17 for "Methods and apparatus for Wi-Fi ranging protocol enhancement with reduced throughput impact" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,909, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and apparatus for Wi-Fi ranging protocol enhancement with reduced throughput impact" was invented by Rishabh Raj (Jamshedpur, India), Ravindra Chauhan (Chennai, India) and Xiaoxin Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ranging operations may be performed between an initiator device and a responder device using data frames as opposed to fine timing measurement (FTM) frames or Null Data Packet (NDP) frames. An initiator device may request the responder device to perform a ranging operation. The responder device may transmit a data frame to the ...