ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,002, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Calibration application for mitigating millimeter wave signal blockage" was invented by Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor, N.J.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) performs a training procedure in which it measures a signal strength and gathers information about objects surrounding the UE, such as the location of fingers holding the UE. This information may be used later in order to...