US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 27 for "Backscatter energy harvesting using a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,596, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Backscatter energy harvesting using a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)" was invented by Vinay Saini (Bangalore, India) and Ram R. Mohan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optimized backscatter energy harvesting using a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) may be provided. Energy parameters may be received from a backscatter communication device. Then an energy critical message may be received from the backscatter communication device. The backscatter communication device may then be instructed to send frequent messages in response to receiving t...