ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,749, issued on April 14, was assigned to University of South Florida (Tampa, Fla.).

"System and method for in-band full-duplex waveform coexistence for joint communication and sensing (JCAS)" was invented by Huseyin Arslan (Tampa, Fla.), Joshua Karl Thomas Ranstrom (Bradenton, Fla.) and Mehmet Mert Sahin (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, the present invention provides joint communication and sensing (JCAS) for in-band full duplex (IBFD) communication, wherein the transmitting device performs transmission of superimposed data and radar signals while simultaneously receiving a data signal. A self-inte...