US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Use of sidelink communications for backscatter node positioning within wireless networks" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,661, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Use of sidelink communications for backscatter node positioning within wireless networks" was invented by Mikko Saily (Espoo, Finland), Stephan Sigg (Espoo, Finland), Sameera Palipana (Espoo, Finland) and Si-Ahmed Naas (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining backscatter frequency offsets assigned to backscatter nodes to be positioned; controlling transmitting, by the first user device, a positioning signal using time-frequency resources found unused by the first user device or allocated by a network node; controlling ...