ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,079, issued on March 11, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Angle of arrival estimation using a single receive chain" was invented by Matan Ben-Shachar (Kibbutz Givat Haim Ihud, Israel), Oren Shani (Kfar-Saba, Israel), Yaron Alpert (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Yuval Jakira (Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining an angle-of-arrival of a wireless transmission are provided, including receiving, with a first antenna, at least a first portion of a wireless transmission, determining when a second portion of the wireless transmission will be received, switching to the second ante...