ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,442, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"GNB-controlled radio frequency (RF) sensing" was invented by Tianyang Bai (Somerville, N.J.), Yuwei Ren (Beijing) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for radio frequency (RF) sensing. A method that may be performed by a UE generally includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a configuration for the UE to perform RF sensing. The method generally includes transmitting an RF sensing signal based on the configuration. The method generally includes performing one or more measureme...