ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,394, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Non-line-of-sight detection" was invented by Ioannis Pefkianakis (Palo Alto, Calif.), Weiping Dou (San Jose, Calif.), David B. Cheung (Los Gatos, Calif.), Ye Sun (San Jose, Calif.) and Faraz Faheem (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device can perform non-line-of-sight detection. The wireless device may establish a wireless link with another wireless device using a wireless channel. The wireless device may perform one or more channel measurements for the wireless channel. The wireless device may determine whether a line-of-sight path i...