ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,180, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Ranging method and apparatus" was invented by Baojian Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Jiajin Luo (Shenzhen, China), Xiaohui Peng (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoyue Hou (Shenzhen, China) and Chenchen Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ranging method and apparatus are provided. In the method, a transmit end receives a first ranging parameter from a receive end, where the first ranging parameter is received in an Nth time of ranging, and the first ranging parameter includes first ranging precision of a ranging signal and/or a first signal-to-noi...