US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 4 for "Detection of near-field location for wireless communications" (California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,705, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Detection of near-field location for wireless communications" was invented by Danlu Zhang (San Diego), Vasanthan Raghavan (West Windsor Township, N.J.) 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, including detection of whether a first wireless device is location within a near-field distance of a second wireless device. The first wireless device measures phases of reference signals received at first antenna array of the first antenna array from a second antenna array of the sec...