ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,943, issued on June 3, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and method for facilitating localizing an external object" was invented by Filippo Casamassima (Thal, Austria), Klaas Brink (Waalre, Netherlands) and Wolfgang Eber (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a system is provided for facilitating localizing an external object, the system comprising: a plurality of ultra-wideband (UWB) communication nodes; a controller operatively coupled to said plurality of UWB communication nodes, wherein the controller is configured to: cause at least one o...