US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Princeton University on May 27 for "Passive backscattering beamformer based on large-area electronics" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,435, issued on May 27, was assigned to The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.).

"Passive backscattering beamformer based on large-area electronics" was invented by Can Wu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yue Ma (Princeton, N.J.), Naveen Verma (Princeton, N.J.), James Sturm (Princeton, N.J.) and Sigurd Wagner (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods disclosed herein provide for a passive backscattering beamformer based on large-area electronics (LAE). Low power is critical for distributed nodes in future IoT/5G networks. A key emerging solution is using ubiquitous 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi infrastructure with passive...