ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,596, issued on June 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Radar target tracking based on return signal strength" was invented by Dan Zhang (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.), Ahmed Bedewy (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Stelios Stefanatos (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for radar target tracking based on return signal strength. A wireless device, such as a radar device, may measure a received signal strength of a detected signal. The received signal strength ma...