ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,498, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Resolving AOA ambiguity based on rotation of user equipment" was invented by Qi Zhou (Milpitas, Calif.), Liang Zhao (Saratoga, Calif.) and Feliciano Gomez Martinez (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a true phase difference of arrival (PDOA), includes: determining a plurality of candidate unwrapped PDOAs for a signal transmitted by a target object and received by at least a first antenna and a second antenna of a user equipment (UE), where the plurality of candidate unwrapped PDOAs corresponds to a plurality of orientations of t...