ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,314, issued on May 20, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Adaptive configuration of multistatic tag backscatter" was invented by Simon Svendsen (Aalborg, Denmark), Johannes Harrebek (Aalborg, Denmark) and Benny Vejlgaard (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable media for adaptive configuration of multistatic harmonic tag backscatter. A network device transmits, to an illuminator for a passive tag, a request for transmitting an activation signal to a passive tag at a primary frequency and a first transmission power. The...