ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,876, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Switzerland AG (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Method for transceiving a message for UWB distance measurement, method and system for distance measurement and transceiver for UWB distance measurement" was invented by David Barras (Sierre, Switzerland) and Boris Danev (Thalwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for transceiving a message (M) for UWB distance measurement: transceiving a first information portion (A) via a narrowband channel; transceiving after the first information portion a second information portion (B) via a UWB channel, wherein the second inform...