ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,191, issued on March 31, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Acoustic configuration based on radio frequency sensing" was invented by Erik Visser (San Diego), Lae-Hoon Kim (San Diego), Jason Filos (San Diego) and Xiaoxin Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and techniques for detecting audio sources and configuring acoustic device settings. For instance, a wireless device can obtain a first set of radio frequency (RF) sensing data associated with a first plurality of received waveforms corresponding to a first transmitted waveform reflected off of a plurality of reflectors. Based on t...