ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,659, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).
"Differentiated and modulated spectrum power radiation via MIMO and beamforming imposed upon ambient electromagnetic power harvesting chips" was invented by Marouane Balmakhtar (Fairfax, Va.), Robert Keith Butler (Overland Park, Kan.), Galip Murat Karabulut (Vienna, Va.) and Lyle W. Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of utilizing beamforming to selectively locate one or more ambient electromagnetic power harvesting (AEPH) chips, implemented by a reader apparatus comprising multiple antennas, the method comprises ...