ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,311, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Crowd sensing using radio frequency sensing from multiple wireless nodes" was invented by Stephen William Edge (Escondido, Calif.), Bapineedu Chowdary Gummadi (Hyderabad, India), Bala Ramasamy (San Marcos, Calif.), Xiaoxin Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ravi Shankar Kadambala (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for obtaining environmental information using radio frequency sensing by one or more wireless devices. An example method of crowd sensing and/or environmental detection using radio frequency sensing with one or more wireless...