ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,348, issued on March 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Channel sounding for wireless local area network sensing" was invented by Claudio Da Silva (Portland, Ore.), Cheng Chen (Portland, Ore.), Bahareh Sadeghi (Portland, Ore.) and Carlos Cordeiro (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to WLAN sensing sounding. A device may identify a sensing null data packet (NDP) request frame received from a second device, the sensing NDP request frame associated with performing a wireless local area network channel sounding procedure; identify transmit pa...