US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 19 for "Optically-assisted calibration" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,020, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Optically-assisted calibration" was invented by Feliciano Gomez Martinez (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Xiaoxin Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein may enable a UE to calibrate its radio frequency (RF) sensor(s) using an optical sensor or a calibrated RF sensor. In one aspect, a first UE estimates a first distance between the first UE and a second UE using at least one of an optical sensor or a calibrated RF-based ranging mechanism. The first UE estimates a second distance between the first UE and the second UE using a non-calibrat...