US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Use of backscatter signals for positioning within wireless networks" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,020, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes controlling receiving, by a user device, frequency-shifted signals from a plurality of backscatter nodes for locating the user device, wherein each of the plurality of backscatter nodes is identifiable by a backscatter node-specific frequency offset of the frequency-shifted signals according to a c...