ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,207, issued on June 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beamforming for backscatter radio" was invented by Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to an apparatus configured for wireless communication. The apparatus may include any wireless communication device configured for radio frequency identification (RFID) communications. In some examples, the apparatus includes a memory comprising instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions. In some examples, the o...