US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 14 for "Occupancy detection and range estimation using Wi-Fi radar" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,827, issued on April 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Occupancy detection and range estimation using Wi-Fi radar" was invented by Muhammad Osama Shahid (Mountain View, Calif.), Peyman Siyari (San Jose, Calif.) and Xiaoxin Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein may improve the accuracy and reliability of radio frequency (RF) sensing performed by wireless devices, which may include detection of living objects with minimal movements (e.g., breathing). In one aspect, a UE receives a set of signals over a time period, where each signal in the set of signals includes a superposition...