ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,548, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Localization system and operating method" was invented by Dorian Haslinger (Nestelbach bei Graz, Austria), Wolfgang Eber (Graz, Austria), David Veit (Graz, Austria) and Filippo Casamassima (Thal, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a localization system is provided, comprising: a plurality of ultra-wideband (UWB) communication nodes; a plurality of antennas, each one of said antennas being included in one of said UWB communication nodes; an antenna selection unit configured to select a subset of ...