US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 14 for "Distributed time synchronization for time difference of arrival (TDOA) using ultra-wideband (UWB)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,996, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Distributed time synchronization for time difference of arrival (TDOA) using ultra-wideband (UWB)" was invented by Varun Amar Reddy (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Pooria Pakrooh (San Diego) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a current synchronization reference anchor for the group of RF positioning anchors may obtain metric information from each radio frequency (RF) positioning anchor of the group of RF positioning anchors. The current synchronization reference anchor may select the ...