ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,021, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Method and device for UWB communication" was invented by Jonghoe Koo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jinwook Seo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Hyunseob Oh (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Mingyu Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Taeyoung Ha (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Haeyoung Jun (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for performing downlink time difference of arrival (DL-TDoA) by an ultra-wide band (UWB) device that includes selecting at least one active ranging round from a ranging block based on at least one of locati...