US Patent Issued to Qorvo US on March 24 for "Wireless device operable to detect a nearby object" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,994, issued on March 24, was assigned to Qorvo US Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Wireless device operable to detect a nearby object" was invented by Nadim Khlat (Cugnaux, France) and Robert Aigner (Ocoee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device operable to detect a nearby object is disclosed. Herein, an object is considered a nearby object when a roundtrip propagation duration of a pulse(s) between an antenna and the object is less than two nanoseconds (2 ns). Given the close proximity of the object, an echo of the emitted pulse(s) may be reflected instantaneously toward the antenna to potentially overlap with the emitted p...