US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 30 for "Positioning of passive internet of things (IOT) devices" (California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,558, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Positioning of passive internet of things (IOT) devices" was invented by Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.), Jing Sun (San Diego), Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.) and Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein may enable an entity that is receiving (or reading) reflected/backscattered signals from an IoT device to differentiate the reflected/backscattered signals from other reflections (e.g., noise or signals bounced from other objects). In one aspect, a wireless device transmits an indication of a positioning session to an IoT d...