ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,759, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Determing time of arrival based on phase measurement" was invented by Daejung Yoon (Nozay, France), Jorge Morte Palacios (Tampere, Finland) and Satya Krishna Joshi (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include determining that a received signal traveled via a shortest path from a transmitting device to a receiving device of an orthogonal frequency-divisional multiplexing (OFDM) communication system, determining a phase rotation of the received signal, and determining a time of arrival based on the determined phase rotation."

The p...