ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,416, issued on March 24, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and method for angle of arrival (AoA) estimation" was invented by Shreyas Srirama reddy Manjuladevi (Irvine, Calif.), Radha Srinivasan (Irvine, Calif.) and Tushar Nagrare (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of wireless communications systems, ultra-wide band (UWB) systems, and methods for wireless communications are described. In an embodiment, a wireless communications system includes a processor configured to obtain an angle of arrival (AoA) estimate from wireless signals; perform a Channel Impulse Response (CIR) analysis, an...