ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,373, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Noise estimation with signal ramps for radar" was invented by Anant Gupta (San Diego), Roberto Rimini (San Diego), Sheng-Yuan Tu (San Diego), Ahmad Bassil Zoubi (San Diego) and Neevan Ramalingam (San Diego).

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 wireless device may transmit a frequency-modulated continuous-waveform (FMCW) dual ramp radar signal over a time duration that sweeps from a first frequency to a second frequency and from the second frequency to the first frequency...