US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 13 for "Barrier type detection using time-of-flight and receive signal strength indication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,280, issued on May 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Barrier type detection using time-of-flight and receive signal strength indication" was invented by Xiaoxin Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Edwin Chongwoo Park (San Diego) and Bala Ramasamy (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for utilizing wireless devices to detect and classify barriers between devices. An example method performed by a user equipment for authorizing a device-to-device request includes receiving a request from a wireless node, determining a first range measurement to the wireless node using a first positioning techniq...