ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,847, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Radio frequency sensing with channel impulse response" was invented by Pooria Pakrooh (San Diego), Bin Tian (San Diego), Stephen Jay Shellhammer (Ramona, Calif.), Koorosh Akhavan (San Diego), Le Nguyen Luong (San Diego) and Ishaque Ashar Kadampot (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 responding device may receive a signal from an initiating device. The responding device may estimate, from the signal, a channel impulse response (CIR) that represents signal refl...