US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 12 for "Positioning based on inter-packet arrival time" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,242, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Positioning based on inter-packet arrival time" was invented by Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.), Mohammad Tarek Fahim (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a radio frequency identification (RFID) station may receive a first packet from an RFID tag at a first arrival time. The RFID station may receive a second packet from the RFID tag at a second arrival time after the first arrival time. The RFID station may estimate a distance between the RFID s...