ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,663, issued on June 10, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Resource allocation in joint communication and sensing" was invented by Saeed Reza Khosravirad (Mountainside, N.J.), Junfeng Guan (Champaign, Ill.), Harish Viswanathan (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Jakub Sapis (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method including transmitting one or more reference signals to one or more user devices; performing preliminary sensing over a sensing area of interest based at least partly on the one or more reference signals; allocating, based at least partly on the preliminary sensing, radio resource...