US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 25 for "Device triggering backscatter communications" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,064, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Device triggering backscatter communications" was invented by Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.), Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.) 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. Described techniques provide for signaling for configuring energy scheduling requests or communications scheduling requests from a semi-passive user equipment (UE) to the network. A semi-passive UE may transmit a message indicating a UE class type to a serving network entity (e.g., indicating that the UE...