US Patent Issued to NXP on Sept. 15 for "Receiver and method of operating a receiver" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,973, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Receiver and method of operating a receiver" was invented by David Lugitsch (Graz, Austria) and Stefan Tertinek (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver includes an ultra-wideband, UWB, communication unit configured to operate in a radar mode and to receive a synchronization signal transmitted by a transmitter, and a synchronization unit operatively coupled to the UWB communication unit. The synchronization unit is configured to estimate a carrier frequency offset from the synchronization signal, derive a reference time from the synchronizat...