ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,353, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Cellular radio frequency (RF) sensing in automobile navigation" was invented by Arnold Jason Gum (San Diego) and Danlu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for obtaining data at a vehicle for automobile navigation based on cellular radio frequency (RF) sensing comprising obtaining, with a camera at the vehicle, a camera image of an environment surrounding the vehicle. The method further comprises determining a failure condition of the camera preventing object detection of the camera image, wherein the failure condition is caused by inclem...