US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 30 for "Transmission and reception of proximity detection signal for peer discovery" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,544, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Transmission and reception of proximity detection signal for peer discovery" was invented by Renqiu Wang (San Diego), Siddhartha Mallik (San Diego), Ravi Palanki (Cupertino, Calif.), Naga Bhushan (San Diego), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Durga Prasad Malladi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing peer discovery to enable peer-to-peer (P2P) communication are disclosed. In an aspect, a proximity detection signal used for peer discovery may be generated based on one or more physical channels and/or signals used in a wireless network. In one des...