US Patent Issued to Samsung Electronics on March 11 for "Method and device for performing UWB ranging" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,051, issued on March 11, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Method and device for performing UWB ranging" was invented by Taeyoung Ha (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Mingyu Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Sooyeon Jung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging based on contention-based multiple access. A method performed by a first UWB device includes transmitting an initiation message for initiating UWB ranging, receiving an access message from a second UWB device within a contention period, transmitting a first reply message (RM), receiving...