ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,711, issued on June 10, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for enabling and utilizing radar capability on a wireless communication" was invented by Arda Aksu (Lafayette, Calif.), Jin Yang (Orinda, Calif.), Vishwanath Ramamurthi (San Ramon, Calif.), Donna L. Polehn (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Lalit R. Kotecha (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station may allocate wireless communication resources to configure a synthetic wireless communication signal for use as a radar signal. The synthetic wireless communication signal may be configured according to a wir...