ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,372, issued on July 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Location of target object using 2-antenna AoA, wireless ranging, and user equipment orientations" was invented by Feliciano Gomez Martinez (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Liang Zhao (Saratoga, 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-orientation-distance-angle values, each including: a position of a user equipment (UE) relative to a reference position; an orientation of the UE relative to a reference orientation; a distance corresponding to the position of the UE, the distance being between the ...