ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,605, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Pseudo-spectrum averaging for high accuracy distance measurements" was invented by Sauli Lehtimaki (Nummela, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for determining the distance between two wireless network devices is disclosed. The present system utilizes a plurality of pseudo-spectrums to create a more accurate final pseudo-spectrum. The pseudo-spectrums are graphs, where peaks in the graphs are indicative of the magnitude of the signal received at a certain distance. In some embodiments, the pseudo-spectrums are generated using...