ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,549, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to STAR ALLY INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (Tortola, British Virgin Islands).

"System and method for time-of-flight determination using categorization of both code and phase in received signal" was invented by Wensheng Hua (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a probe signal at an estimated code delay and an estimated doppler frequency includes: (i) dividing a period of the probe signal into sections each of a predetermined duration; (ii) assigning to each section one of a multiple code categories, each code category being indicative of a signal pattern of the probe signal wi...