ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,187, issued on March 4, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for detecting motion events based on channel state information" was invented by Sagar Deepak Mahurkar (Frisco, Texas), Anjaneya Pericharla (Irving, Texas), Praveen Atreya (Jersey City, N.J.), Srirama R. Kalidindi (Flower Mound, Texas), Sanjay Ahuja (Irving, Texas) and Heather E. McDavitt (Far Hills, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a first device may obtain first channel state information (CSI) of a second device. The first device may determine that a variance of the first CSI exceeds a var...