ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,456, issued on March 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"System and method for determining line of sight (LOS)" was invented by George Calcev (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), Philippe Sartori (Plainfield, Ill.) and Weimin Xiao (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a first device includes communicating, with a second device, a LOS determination request including a dual polarization procedure indicator indicating a dual polarization procedure is used in LOS characterization of a transmission between the first device and the second device, measuring a first signal on a fir...