ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,015, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Perception-assisted wireless communication" was invented by Hussein Metwaly Saad (San Diego), Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap (San Diego), Simone Merlin (San Diego), Tom Edward Botterill (San Diego), Yann Lebrun (Viroflay, France), Ravi Agarwal (San Diego), Juan Carlos Bucheli Garcia (Lannion, France), Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri (San Diego) and Danlu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first device may receive, from a second device, perception information for an environment of the first device based at least in part on a perception capability of the...