ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,696, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Detection of radio frequency signal transfer anomalies" was invented by Mohammed Ataur Rahman Shuman (San Diego), Jonathan Petit (Wenham, Mass.) and Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio frequency signal transfer anomaly notification method includes: determining, at a first roadside unit, presence of an anomaly of radio frequency signal transfer within a wireless communication range of the first roadside unit; determining a type of radio frequency signal transfer of the anomaly; and transmitting, from the first roadside unit to ano...