US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 25 for "Techniques for enabling backscatter-based positioning measurements" (California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,051, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for enabling backscatter-based positioning measurements" 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. In some wireless communications systems, a first wireless device, such as an energy harvesting device, may receive, from a second wireless device, such as an energy transmitting device, parameters associated with backscattering a positioning signal, the parameters inc...