ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,854, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Ambient RF/WiFi energy harvesting, indoor location tracking and improved Wi-Fi connectivity using machine learning algorithm" was invented by Prathibha Peddireddy (Bangalore, India), Maruti Tamrakar (Tamil-Nadu, India), Zaman Zaid Mulla (Mumbai, India), Jayprakash Thakur (Bangalore, India) and Mythili Hegde (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication device including a processor; a memory, coupled to the processor, to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: connect an antenna to an energy h...