ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,059, issued on March 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Wideband-assisted ultra-wideband (UWB) sensing" was invented by Dongsik Kim (San Diego), Koorosh Akhavan (San Diego), Anand Srinivas Guruswamy (San Diego), Damith Nivantha Senaratne (San Diego) and Le Nguyen Luong (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of ultra-wideband (UWB) sensing performed by a wireless communication device, the method comprising determining a first channel impulse response (CIR) estimation of a first frequency channel based on a radio access technology (RAT) session, wherein the RAT is different from UWB. The method also c...