Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Broadcast ranging radios for localization and timing
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Application No.: US16435610Application Date: 2019-06-10
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Publication No.: US11234201B2Publication Date: 2022-01-25
- Inventor: Alberto Daniel Lacaze , Karl Nicholas Murphy
- Applicant: ROBOTIC RESEARCH OPCO, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MD Clarksburg
- Assignee: ROBOTIC RESEARCH OPCO, LLC
- Current Assignee: ROBOTIC RESEARCH OPCO, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MD Clarksburg
- Agency: RowanTree Law Group, PLLC
- Agent Carson C. K. Fincham
- Main IPC: H04W56/00
- IPC: H04W56/00 ; H04B10/116

Abstract:
A broadcasting method has been developed that no longer uses the point-to-point measurements that causes the bottlenecks due to the number of measurements that need to be taken increasing non-linearly with the number of nodes. In addition, not all nodes need to emit. This results in significantly less expensive devices that can be paired with emitting nodes in the infrastructure. The energy emitted by the group is lowered and there is significantly less bandwidth that is used compared to current systems. This system is designed to synchronize remote clocks and localize a group of nodes and comprises at least 4 ranging nodes equipped with a clock, the capability to send and receive messages, the capability to time-tag messages, the capability for the nodes to compute the two sheeted hyperboloids from the emissions of other nodes, and the capability of combining multiple hyperboloids to solve the localization equations.
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