ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,764, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reference signals for joint communication and sensing" was invented by Weimin Duan (San Diego), Hyojin Lee (San Diego) and June Namgoong (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, processes, and computer-readable media for wireless communications. For example, an example of a process includes receiving a signal comprising a slot including at least one shared signal resource. The process further includes determining whether the slot is allocated for sensing and communications or is allocated for communications. The process further incl...