ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,801, issued on July 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and systems for Wi-Fi sensing announcement" was invented by Jung Hoon Suh (Kanata, Canada), Yan Xin (Kanata, Canada), Osama Aboul-Magd (Kanata, Canada) and Kwok Shum Au (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A procedure and frame structure for Wi-Fi sensing is described. An aspect of the disclosure provides a method of sensing. Such a method includes sending, by an initiating station (STA) to one or more responder STAs, a sensing request comprising a sensing announcement frame (SAF) indicating sensing set-up information including frame s...