ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,334, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ZHEJIANG LAB (Hangzhou, China) and ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Zhejiang, China).

"Signal communication based on levitated particle" was invented by Huizhu Hu (Hangzhou, China), Zhenhai Fu (Hangzhou, China), Xiaowen Gao (Hangzhou, China), Xingfan Chen (Hangzhou, China), Nan Li (Zhejiang, China), Cheng Liu (Zhejiang, China), Zhiming Chen (Hangzhou, China), Jinsheng Xu (Hangzhou, China), Shaochong Zhu (Hangzhou, China), Yingying Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Peitong He (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and device for performing signal communication base...