US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 20 for "Techniques for energy harvesting using a square waveform" (California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,662, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for energy harvesting using a square waveform" was invented by Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An energy harvesting device, such as a user equipment (UE) or a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, may receive, from an energy transfer device such as a network node, an energy harvesting signal providing power for the energy harvesting device. The energy harvesting devi...