ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,942, issued on May 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Jammer detection" was invented by Udara Fernando (San Diego), Ajay Devadatta Kanetkar (San Diego), Shrenik Patel (San Diego) and Kyle Alexander Douglas (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is disclosed for jammer detection. In example aspects, the apparatus includes a wireless transceiver configured to be connected to one or more antennas. The wireless transceiver is configured to translate a received signal from a first frequency to a second frequency using a reference signal to produce a translated received signal, with the reference signal including ...