ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,778, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multi-sensor assisted maximum power exposure (MPE) operations for millimeter wave (MMW) communications" was invented by Danlu Zhang (San Diego), Xiaoxin Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Parthiban Ellappan (Virudhunagar, India), Bala Ramasamy (San Marcos, Calif.) and Jiaying Pan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless sensing. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) detects an object and a direction to the object in an environment of the UE, determines whether the object is a human, identifies, based on the object being the human, a sensi...