ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,164, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for providing service using UWB communication" was invented by Jonghoe Koo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngwan So (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Mingyu Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a service through ultra-wide band (UWB) communication is provided. The method by a UWB device includes receiving, from an initiator anchor, a first UWB message initiating a ranging procedure, receiving, from a plurality of responder anchors, a plurality of second UWB messages transmitted in response...