US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 22 for "Signal masking for secure backscattered communication" (Washington, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,028, issued on April 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Signal masking for secure backscattered communication" was invented by Vaishnavi Nattar Ranganathan (Woodinville, Wash.), Nissanka Arachchige Bodhi Priyantha (Redmond, Wash.), Mike Nakahara (Kirkland, Wash.), Vikram Subramaniam Iyer (Seattle) and Harsh Sandesh Desai (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are disclosed that relate to improving security of radio frequency (RF) backscattered communication. In one example, a RF device includes a primary RF signal receiver, a secondary signal receiver, a signal mixer, and a transmitt...