ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,635, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods to delegate out-of-band management of a shared ultra-wideband clock" was invented by Matthew A. Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio), Robert C. Badea (Broadview Heights, Ohio), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method to delegate out-of-band (OOB) management of a shared ultra-wideband (UWB) clock. The system may comprise a tagged device with a UWB tag and multiple anchors. The tagged device may be configured to establish at least one OOB communication link...