ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,277, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Phase coherence discontinuity for sensing signals" was invented by Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Srinivas Yerramalli (San Diego), Rajat Prakash (San Diego) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first node may transmit a set of sensing signals. The first node may transmit a phase coherence indication based on a set of phase coherence discontinuities associated with the set of sensing signals to a second node. The second node may receive the set of sensing signals. The set of sensing signals received by the second node may be reflected off of a tar...