ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,922, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Computation-based detuning of coupled antennas" was invented by Adrianus Van Bezooijen (Molenhoek, Netherlands), Francesco Gatta (San Diego) and Erwin Spits (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is provided that detunes a receive antenna while a transmit antenna transmits. To determine the detuning, the UE first transmits a signal through the transmit antenna while the receive antenna is sequentially coupled through known loads. At each load, the UE determines an input reflection coefficient for a transmit path to the transmit ant...