ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,123, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for allocating resources for communications and radar sensing" was invented by Preeti Kumari (San Diego), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may identify a first radio bearer to be used for sensing operations and a second radio bearer to be used for data communications. The base station may transmit, to a user equipment (UE), a control messag...