US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 28 for "Energy-state feedback for efficient wireless power transfer to IoT devices" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,630, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Energy-state feedback for efficient wireless power transfer to IoT devices" was invented by Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.), Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, 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. For instance, a first wireless device may transmit, to a second wireless device, a first signal for probing an energy state of the second wireless device. The first wireless device may monitor for a second, backscattered signal indicating the energy state of the second wirel...