US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 25 for "Wi-Fi assisted energy harvesting of backscattering devices" (Canadian, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,310, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Wi-Fi assisted energy harvesting of backscattering devices" was invented by Indermeet S. Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.), Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada) and Ugo M. Campiglio (Morges, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein use a 5G node to provide supplemental power to an AMP STA to assist with Wi-Fi communication. Wi-Fi APs may not provide sufficient power wirelessly for the AMP STA to transmit data, or to transmit data as frequently as desired by the AMP STA. A controller can determine when an AMP STA is not receiving sufficient ...