US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Jan. 27 for "Receiver alignment to enhance signal quality in near-field communications" (New Jersey, California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,587, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Receiver alignment to enhance signal quality in near-field communications" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.), Juergen Cezanne (Ocean Township, N.J.), Mohammad Ali Tassoudji (San Diego), Yu-Chin Ou (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A receiver may orient its antenna arrays based on signaling from a transmitter and a distance between the receiver and the transmitter. The transmitter may transmit an indication of an orientation...