ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,498, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Applying port diversity of virtual array for improving sensing capability with joint communication links" was invented by Jiaying Ren (San Jose, Calif.), Rui Zhang (San Jose, Calif.) and Shiauhe Tsai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of joint communication and sensing of a target obstacle (object or human) is disclosed. The method comprises deploying a joint communication and sensing transceiver, comprising a transmitter (TX) having at least two transmitting antennas and a receiver (RX) having at least one receiving antenna; transmitt...