ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,296, issued on April 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Networked ultrawideband positioning" was invented by Liang Zhao (Saratoga, Calif.), Le Nguyen Luong (San Diego), Cheng-Han Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Bala Ramasamy (San Marcos, Calif.), Santosh Kumar Gupta (San Jose, Calif.), Yi Zeng (San Jose, Calif.), Chan Hong Park (San Jose, Calif.) and Koorosh Akhavan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for determining the location of ultrawideband (UWB) devices in a network. An example method for providing location information associated with a target device in a UWB network includes determining a ...