ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,393, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Deriving angle information in wireless networks covering near-field areas" was invented by Hyojin Lee (San Diego), Weimin Duan (San Diego) and Yu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for wireless sensing. In an aspect, a transmitter device transmits, to at least one receiver device, one or more reference signals on each of a plurality of transmit beams, wherein the plurality of transmit beams corresponds to a plurality of codepoints of a near-field codebook, and wherein each of the plurality of codepoints is parameterized with an ang...