US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on Feb. 18 for "Multistatic backscatter for joint communication and ranging" (American, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,631, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Multistatic backscatter for joint communication and ranging" was invented by Ioannis Kimionis (Murray Hill, N.J.), Michael Eggleston (Columbus, Ohio), Eleftherios Kampianakis (Murray Hill, N.J.) and Traian Abrudan (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multistatic backscatter system may comprise unsynchronized devices. The unsynchronized device may comprise two or more spatially separated transmitter devices to transmit carrier signals, a transmitter device being configured to transmit carrier signals over a frequency set of two or mo...