ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,998, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Stichting IMEC Nederland (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Ultra-wideband pulse and ultra-wideband pulse-based ranging" was invented by Chris Marshall (Waalre, Netherlands), Erwin Allebes (Sterksel, Netherlands), Minyoung Song (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Elbert Betchthum (Veldhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating an ultra-wideband signal is provided. The method comprises the steps of generating at least one ultra-wideband pulse envelope comprising a main pulse and a precursor pulse, the precursor pulse being shorter in length and lower in amplitude compared to the ...