ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,557, issued on April 7, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for antenna power attenuation" was invented by Christopher J Sheppard (Carrollton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for determining radio frequency (RF) emission metrics associated with an antenna system and/or controlling a transmitter power of the antenna system based upon the determined RF metrics. In an example, a video stream is received from a camera associated with an antenna system. An object is detected in a video frame of the video stream. A separati...