ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,611, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam management for radio frequency sensing" was invented by Sungwoo Park (Seoul, South Korea), Wooseok Nam (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Juan Montojo (San Diego), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego), Taesang Yoo (San Diego), Simone Merlin (San Diego), Srinivas Yerramalli (Hyderabad, India) and John Edward Smee (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, or computer-readable medium with instructions for beam management for radio frequency (RF) sensing at a wireless device. The ...