ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,538, issued on July 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Compressed PSDU format for NBA-MMS-UWB control signals" was invented by Alexander Krebs (Munich), Su Khiong Yong (Cupertino, Calif.), Moche Cohen (Pardes Hanna, Israel), Santhoshkumar Mani (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lochan Verma (Danville, Calif.), Yong Liu (Cupertino, Calif.) and Jinjing Jiang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device may transmit ranging transmissions using a compressed PSDU. The compressed PSDU may be configured to support poll packets, response packets, and report packets. The compressed PSDU may comprise an identifier (I...