US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for object detection by radio frequency systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,254, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for object detection by radio frequency systems" was invented by Berke Cetinoneri (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ioannis Sarkas (San Carlos, Calif.) and Qishan Yu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices are provided for detecting the presence of an object near an electronic device. A radio frequency (RF) system of an electronic device may include a first circuit that includes one or more transmission paths for transmitting a reference signal external to the electronic device. The RF system may include a second circu...