ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,362, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for radio frequency (RF) ranging-aided localization and map generation" was invented by Mandar Narsinh Kulkarni (South Plainfield, N.J.), Jubin Jose (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Ahmed Kamel Sadek (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for radio frequency (RF) ranging-aided localization and crowdsourced mapping are provided. In one aspect, a method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes obtaining sensor data comprising first radio frequency (RF) ranging data and imaging data. The method further includes tagging th...