ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,018, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Location of target object using wireless ranging and user equipment positions" was invented by Feliciano Gomez Martinez (Los Gatos, Calif.), Stephen Jay Shellhammer (Ramona, Calif.), Bin Tian (San Diego) and Xiaoxin Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for locating a target object, includes: determining a plurality of position-distance values, each of the plurality of position-distance values includes: a position of a user equipment relative to a reference position; and a distance corresponding to the position of the user equipment, the di...