ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,671, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Wireless power transfer from a user equipment (UE)" was invented by Raviteja Patchava (San Diego), Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and techniques for wireless communications. For example, a first network device can transmit, to second network device(s), a first information signal including information indicating a frequency for a backscattered signal. The first network device can transmit, to a third network device, a second information signal including information indicating a frequency...