ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,988, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for initializing newly added base station in UWB system, terminal, and system" was invented by Wei Dong (Xi'an, China), Haowei Xu (Xi'an, China), Qingfeng Xue (Xi'an, China) and Erli Wang (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes a device in an area 1 that requests a ultra-wideband (UWB) base station in the area 1 to measure an initial position, and starts inertial measurement unit (IMU) measurement. The device moves to an area 2, and the device requests to measure distances between each UWB base station in the area 2...