ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,962, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Bundling of radio frequency sensing signals for joint sensing and data communication" was invented by Weimin Duan (San Diego), Alexandros Manolakos (Athens, Greece) and Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for joint sensing and data communication. A first sensing signal and a second sensing signal are transmitted in sequence, from a transmitter and using the same carrier frequency, for combined processing by a receiver. In some implementations, the sensing signals are radar signals. Data communication during an intervenin...