ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,823, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Wireless communication system with object detection function, object detection method and base station device" was invented by Shinya Otsuki (Musashino, Japan), Tomoki Murakami (Musashino, Japan) and Tomoaki Ogawa (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a wireless communication system that detects an object inside a communication area including: a base station device; and a terminal device, in which the base station device controls a timing for transmitting a reference signal for measuring a state of a propagation path on the basis of a pilot signal inclu...