US Patent Issued to DUKE UNIVERSITY on June 30 for "Vibrational radar backscatter communications" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,581, issued on June 30, was assigned to DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, N.C.).

"Vibrational radar backscatter communications" was invented by Jeffrey Krolik (Durham, N.C.) and Jessica Centers (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing vibrational radar backscatter communications includes transmitting radar waveforms at millimeter wave frequencies, receiving, from a vibrating transponder, vibrational backscatter of radar waveforms, performing synchronization on the vibrational backscatter to determine a start of an encoded communication message sequence, calculating a predicted symbol sequence based on the encoded co...