US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 11 for "Centralized time synchronization for time difference of arrival (TDOA) using ultra-wideband (UWB)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,418, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Centralized time synchronization for time difference of arrival (TDOA) using ultra-wideband (UWB)" was invented by Varun Amar Reddy (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Escondido, Calif.), Pooria Pakrooh (San Diego) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a server may obtain metric information from each of a group of RF positioning anchors, wherein the metric information of a respective RF positioning anchor comprises information regarding: a time source accessible to the respective RF positioning anchor, a ground...