US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 29 for "Techniques for improving ranging between electronic devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,202, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for improving ranging between electronic devices" was invented by Benjamin A. Werner (San Jose, Calif.), Merrick K. McCracken (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Robert W. Brumley (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device may receive a plurality of timestamps, wherein the plurality of timestamps indicate sending and receiving time for ranging packets and response packets. The mobile device may calculate a responder turn-around time as a first difference between the second time and the first time. The mobile device may calculate a respondi...