US Patent Issued to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University on Jan. 27 for "Gateway for allocating uplink frequency bands and backscattering IoT device and method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,345, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Gateway for allocating uplink frequency bands and backscattering IoT device and method" was invented by Dong In Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Hyun Suk Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backscattering method for an Internet-of-things (IoT) device includes a frequency-splitting (FS)-simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) wireless communication system. The backscattering method includes collecting energy by simultaneously receiving power having a first frequency, r...