US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 18 for "Physical layer transmit mode for improving signal-to-interference on backscatter message" (Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,681, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Physical layer transmit mode for improving signal-to-interference on backscatter message" was invented by Matthew A. Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio), Sivadeep Reddy Kalavakuru (Akron, Ohio) and Ardalan Alizadeh (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improving backscattering and, specifically, a physical Layer transmit mode for improving the Signal-to-Interference Ratio (SIR) of backscatter signals may be provided. A transmitter may determine a Backscatter Device (BKD) to send a transmission to for backscattering. The transmitter may determine a width of a punc...