ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,480, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for a wireless communication device to enable a body proximity sensing operation" was invented by Gil Meyuhas (Tel Aviv, Israel), Noam Kogos (Ramat Hasharon, Israel) and Adiel Langer (Petah Tiqwa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are provided to control a body proximity sensing operation. An apparatus for a wireless communication device, the apparatus may include an interface to a radio frequency (RF) transceiver, and processing circuitry configured to: monitor one or more transmit power limitation parameters u...