ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,020, issued on May 12, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Enhancement to sensing by proxy" was invented by Cheng Chen (Camas, Wash.), Dibakar Das (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Carlos Cordeiro (Camas, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to enhanced sensing. A device of a sensing by proxy (SBP) initiator may cause to send an SBP request to an access point (AP) to perform a sensing procedure with a first non-AP station device (STA) or a list of non-AP STAs. The device may identify a SBP response received from the AP, wherein the SBP response comprises an indication...