US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 22 for "Proximity motion sensing for virtual reality systems" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,869, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Proximity motion sensing for virtual reality systems" was invented by Parthiban Ellappan (Virudhunagar, India) and Xiaoxin Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for alerting a user of a virtual reality (VR) system of hazards in the proximate environment. An example method of proximity sensing with a virtual reality headset includes communicating with a station via a first wireless link, detecting a target object using radio frequency sensing on a second wireless link, determining a rate of approach associated with the targe...