US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 8 for "Method, apparatus, and medium for performing time measurement exchange between stations" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,866, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method, apparatus, and medium for performing time measurement exchange between stations" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Akram Sheriff (San Jose, Calif.) and Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for timing measurement in a wireless network to determine a location of a station (STA). A channel stability is determined for a channel between an initiating station (ISTA) and a first responding station (RSTA). A request for a first timing-measurement exchange is sent from the IS...