ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,909, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and device for performing UWB ranging" was invented by Taeyoung Ha (Suwon-si, South Korea), Mingyu Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sooyeon Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing bi-directional ultra-wide band (UWB) ranging is provided. The method by a first ultra-wide band (UWB) device includes transmitting an initiation message for initiating UWB ranging, receiving at least one device access message from at least one second UWB device within a contention period, transmitting at least one re...