US Patent Issued to DIRECTV on July 14 for "Methods and apparatus to position antennas" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,194, issued on July 14, was assigned to DIRECTV LLC (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to position antennas" was invented by Alan Smith (Anaheim, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed. An example mobile device includes memory; machine-readable instructions; and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine-readable instructions to: receive a first ultra-wide band (UWB) communication from an antenna device; determine the antenna device is located at a second position based on the first UWB communication; determine a receivab...