ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,859, issued on July 7, was assigned to dormakaba Schweiz AG (Rumlang, Switzerland).

"UWB localization device and method" was invented by Paul Studerus (Oberweningen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UWB localization device comprising a UWB receiver with a first and second antenna device for receiving UWB signals from a UWB transmitter; a UWB shield arranged between the antenna devices; and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to determine, by processing properties of the UWB signals, a first and a second time of arrival of UWB signals from a UWB transmitter at the first and second antenna devices; and to de...