ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,543, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Extending range of ultra-wide band (UWB)-based device-to-device ranging" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Matthew A. Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio), Robert C. Badea (Broadview Heights, Ohio), Ardalan Alizadeh (Campbell, Calif.), Peiman Amini (Fremont, Calif.), Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada) and Brian D. Hart (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatus for extending a range of a ranging procedure performed using ultra-wide band (UWB) are described. An example technique includes receiving, by a first net...