ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,124, issued on July 7, was assigned to Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Trondheim, Norway).

"Exchange of ranging data" was invented by Carsten Wulff (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, there is provided a first radio device for performing the following. The first radio device causes wireless transmission of one or more first advertising messages at one or more advertising radio frequencies using a connectionless mode of the first radio device. The radio device receives, for at least one first advertising message, a first scan request from a second radio device and transmits, for each first scan request, ...