ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,722, issued on May 19, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Proximity detection for a beamforming transceiver" was invented by Simon Svendsen (Aalborg, Denmark), Samantha Caporal Del Barrio (Aalborg, Denmark), Christian Rom (Aalborg, Denmark), Benny Vejlgaard (Gistrup, Denmark) and Johannes Harrebek (Aalborg, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, there is provided an apparatus for a radio frequency front end of a beamforming transmitter or transceiver. The apparatus comprises a dual-polarized antenna element (222) for reception of electromagnetic waves transmitted by an antenna array (221) ...