US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Feb. 11 for "Method of network-assisted beamformed energy harvesting signaling and corresponding apparatus" (Pennsylvania, California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,595, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method of network-assisted beamformed energy harvesting signaling and corresponding apparatus" was invented by Hussain Elkotby (Conshohocken, Pa.), Ravikumar Pragada (Warrington, Pa.), Mahmoud Abdelgelil (San Diego), Tanbir Haque (Jackson Heights, N.Y.) and Patrick Cabrol (Bayshore, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless transmit/receive unit, WTRU, may include an Energy Harvesting device, EH, a Zero Energy transceiver, ZE, and a main transceiver. The WTRU may initialize operation using the main transceiver, and receive beam detecti...