ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,206, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) radar with beamforming" was invented by Jing Dai (Beijing), Min Huang (Beijing), Chao Wei (Beijing), Chenxi Hao (Beijing), Liangming Wu (Beijing), Mingxi Yin (Beijing) and Hao Xu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for radio frequency (RF) sensing. In an aspect, a network entity (e.g., base station or road-side unit) may perform RF sensing in a first mode for sensing a horizontal angle using horizontal multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) radar with vertical beamforming, in which a two-dimensional ...