MUMBAI, India, April 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202527027559 A) filed by Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, on March 25, for 'surface acoustic wave (saw) backscatter-based positioning.'

Inventor(s) include Wang, Xiaojie; Sun, Jing; Fahim, Mohammad Tarek; and Yerramalli, Srinivas.

The application for the patent was published on April 25, under issue no. 17/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support backscatter-based positioning. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication includes receiving multiple measurement reports associated with a surface acoustic wave (...