ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,960, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Maximum permissible exposure detection and mitigation utilizing user equipment to object associations" was invented by Yucheng Dai (San Diego), Wooseok Nam (San Diego) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network node may obtain a first position of an object associated with a user equipment (UE) based on a received reflection of a sensing signal. The (UE) may transmit a communication beam to a network node. The network node may obtain at least one of an indication of a second position of the UE or a beam direction of the communication beam. The net...