ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,045, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Resource allocation for joint communications and radio frequency (RF) sensing" was invented by Weimin Duan (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego) and Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for wireless communications are provided, including resource allocation for joint communications and RF sensing of objects. For example, a radar receiver (or component thereof) may determine a sensing measurement accuracy of the radar receiver based on one or more measurements associated with at least one target. The radar receiver (or co...