ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,166, issued on July 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Phase-based ranging method and related apparatus" was invented by Wei Wang (Singapore) and Heng Zhang (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase-based ranging method and a related apparatus are disclosed. The ranging method includes: receiving a first multi-tone signal sent by a second transceiver, where the first multi-tone signal includes N first single-frequency signals, the N first single-frequency signals are obtained through negotiation between a first transceiver and the second transceiver, and N is an integer greater than 1; perfo...