ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,843, issued on July 14, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Joint communication and sensing method and related user equipment for orthogonal frequency domain multiplexing communication system" was invented by Rui Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Shiauhe Tsai (San Jose, Calif.) and Jiaying Ren (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joint communication and sensing method for an orthogonal frequency domain multiplexing (OFDM) communication system, includes determining a staggering offset format for an OFDM reference signal (RS) symbol; and eliminating a time delay ambiguity in a two-dimension (2D) range with the ...