US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 24 for "Frequency assignment mechanisms for backscatter devices" (American, Swiss, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,062, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Frequency assignment mechanisms for backscatter devices" was invented by Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Indermeet S. Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.), Domenico Ficara (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland) and Amine Choukir (Ecublens, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe BKDs that can transmit reply messages using different frequencies than the frequencies of wireless transmissions they receive which can reduce collisions in a Wi-Fi environment. In one embodiment, when transmitting power...