US Patent Issued to ZTE on Sept. 15 for "Dual function radio access network node with wireless communication and sensing" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,659, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Dual function radio access network node with wireless communication and sensing" was invented by Li Yang (Shenzhen, China), Feng Xie (Shenzhen, China) and Shuqiang Xia (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio access network ("RAN") node or basestation that includes dual functions with both wireless communications and wireless sensing. The sensing related signal may be integrated in the RAN node to provide sensing operations (e.g. sensing radio link S-RL) in addition to wireless communications (e.g. communication radio link RL) with user equipment (...