US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 15 for "Barrier detection to aid contact tracing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,176, issued on April 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Barrier detection to aid contact tracing" was invented by Vidhur Raveendran (Del Mar, Calif.), laith Madain (San Diego), Xiaoxin Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ashok Bhatia (San Diego) and Vijayalakshmi Raveendran (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for utilizing wireless devices for contact tracing, and more specifically for detecting a barrier between devices to enhance contact tracing applications. An example method for detecting a barrier between a first device and a second device includes determining, by the first device, a first ...