ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,446, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Safety regulation verification method for a mobile device, and method for determining a transmitting power upper limit thereof" was invented by Wei-Hsuan Chang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Shih-Wei Hsieh (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Chiu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Cheng-Han Lee (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Lee (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Shyh-Tirng Fang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety regulation verification method comprises: measuring a first transmitting power of the antenna module at a trigger distance of a proximity sensor ...