US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Wireless power transfer in communications" (American, Finnish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,446, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Wireless power transfer in communications" was invented by Shashwat Mishra (Massy, France), Muhammad Majid Butt (Naperville, Ill.) and Sahan Damith Liyanaarachchi (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method comprising an apparatus instructing a set of ambient radiation powered devices to suspend transmissions other than harvested energy reporting during a training period. Upon at least a predefined number of the ambient radiation powered devices in the set agreeing to transmit harvested energy reporting during the training peri...