ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,577, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Many-to-many wireless network ranging technique" was invented by Oren Shani (Saratoga, Calif.), Josef Peery (Kadima, Israel), Leonid Vainbrand (Rishon LeTsiyon, Israel), Udi Atar (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yoav Feinmesser (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yoel Boger (Shoham, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations comprising periodically broadcasting, by a first wireless device, outgoing ranging packets on a measurement channel of a wireless network; receiving, by the first wireless device on the mea...