ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,138, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic devices with motion-based radio-frequency environment mapping" was invented by Jiaming Cui (Milpitas, Calif.), Jonathan Ah Sue (Munich), Nayef A Alsindi (Dublin, Calif.), Andreas Menkhoff (Oberhaching, Germany), Matthew A Mow (Los Altos, Calif.), Tideya Kella (San Jose, Calif.) and Joseph Hakim (Jacksonville, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include radio-frequency sensing circuitry that transmits sensing signals and that receives reflected signals using one or more antennas. The sensing circuitry may generate digital senso...