US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 25 for "Assisting node (AN) for wireless energy transfer" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,296, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Assisting node (AN) for wireless energy transfer" 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: "Certain aspects are directed to an assisting node (AN) for wireless communications. The assisting node may operate as a relay or repeater (e.g., smart repeater), and may be configured to decode control signals it receives from a network node. The control signals may provide the AN with scheduling and resource allocations, and/or instruct the AN to use particular capabi...