ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,521, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Channel sounding and radar sensing antenna switching" was invented by Kangqi Liu (San Diego), Weimin Duan (San Diego), Jing Jiang (San Diego) and Danlu Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal transfer method for communication, radar sensing, or a combination thereof, includes: transmitting, from a UE, a capability message indicating a capability of the UE to perform antenna switching for radar signal transmission and for communication signal transmission; receiving, at the UE from a network entity, a configuration message indicating a radar signal ...