ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,557, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Terminal device communication" was invented by Muhammad Majid Butt (Naperville, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program is described comprising: obtaining information, said information being associated with one or more transmissions from a terminal device, said terminal device comprising: a transmitter for transmitting data in first and second modes, wherein, in the first mode transmitting data comprises modulating said data on a backscattered signal, and wherein, in the second mode transmitting data compris...