ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,640, issued on March 25, was assigned to Verity AG (Zurich).

"Angle information estimation of ultra-wideband wireless signals" was invented by Raffaello D'Andrea (Zurich, Switzerland) and Anton Ledergerber (Winterthur, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method and device for estimating angle information (50) of a received ultra-wideband wireless signal. Upon reception of a wireless signal emitted from a transmitting device (20) with known sounding sequence, the receiving device (10) estimates the channel impulse response (CIR), selects a portion of the channel impulse response (CIR), and estimates ...