US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on March 24 for "Ambient power device-initiated secure communications using wireless backscattering" (Texas, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,232, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Ambient power device-initiated secure communications using wireless backscattering" was invented by Hui Luo (Marlboro, N.J.) and Rakesh Taori (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes backscattering, by an ambient power (AMP) device that harvests environmental energy, radio frequency (RF) energy received in a wireless signal from at least one of a powered wireless device or a helper wireless device. The method includes causing, by the AMP device, an initialization request frame to be transmitted to the powered wireless d...