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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 13, 2019
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Alexander Dorosenco, El Cajon, CA (US);

Carl Hardin, Encinitas, CA (US);

Joseph Patrick Burke, San Diego, CA (US);

Joseph Binamira Soriaga, San Diego, CA (US);

Jay King, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 27/26 (2006.01); H03L 7/085 (2006.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 27/2657 (2013.01); H03L 7/085 (2013.01); H04L 27/2656 (2013.01); H04L 27/2672 (2013.01); H04L 27/2676 (2013.01); H04W 56/0015 (2013.01); H04W 56/0045 (2013.01);
Abstract

Phase variations between a transmitter (TX) waveform and a receiver (RX) waveform produced by a TX Phase-Locked-Loop (PLL) and a RX PLL, respectively, is a source of error in processing delay calibration used, e.g., in Round Trip Time (RTT) estimation. While a TX waveform and a RX waveform have a constant phase delay while in steady state conditions, during transient times, e.g., at start up or reset, the phase delay may vary by as much as ±180°, which at baseband frequencies of 50 MHz, introduces a random delay variations of as much as ±10 nsec, which is undesirable for fine position estimation using RTT. The phase delay variation between the TX waveform and RX waveform may be reduced or eliminated using a phase correction signal generated using the output signals of the TX PLL and RX PLL.


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