ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,546, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Qorvo US Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Hybrid global location tracking system" was invented by Nadim Khlat (Cugnaux, France) and Billy Verso (Maynooth, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid global location tracking system is disclosed. The hybrid global location tracking system includes an anchor device(s) and multiple tag devices, each including an ultra-wideband (UWB) transceiver circuit. The anchor device(s) can broadcast a location request to wake up the tag devices for location update. Each of the tag devices can measure a distance and an angle based on the received location request an...