ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,270, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Managed network supporting backscattering communication devices" was invented by Amine Choukir (Lausanne, Switzerland), Domenico Ficara (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland), Pascal Thubert (Roquefort-les-Pins, France), Leo Caldarola (Morrens, Switzerland), Mathieu Monney (Bussigny, Switzerland), Arun G. Khanna (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A managed network supporting backscattering communication devices may be provided. A computing device may determine a plurality of locations respectively associated with a plura...