ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,743, issued on May 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Radio frequency sensing with multi-segment sensing signal" was invented by Kangqi Liu (San Diego) and Weimin Duan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio frequency sensing method includes: obtaining, at an apparatus, a sensing signal configuration of a sensing signal in response to a request for radio frequency sensing, the sensing signal configuration indicating a first segment with a monotonically increasing frequency over a first length of time, indicating a second segment with a monotonically decreasing frequency over a second length of time, and indicati...