US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 20 for "Contention-based discovery and secure ranging techniques for congested environments" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,547, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Contention-based discovery and secure ranging techniques for congested environments" was invented by Qiang Chen (Freemont, Calif.), Robert W. Brumley (San Jose, Calif.), Robert Golshan (San Francisco) and Jinjing Jiang (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device may receive a plurality of polling messages with each polling message including an identifier of a particular access device transmitting the polling message. Each polling message of the plurality of polling messages may be transmitted during a polling phase. The mobile device may sel...