ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,269, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Radio device, reader device and method for operating them" was invented by Thomas Fehrenbach (Berlin), Baris Goktepe (Berlin), Thomas Wirth (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Thomas Wiegand (Berlin), Alvaro Lopez Raventos (Berlin) and Buket Torun (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio device for a wireless communication network includes a backscatter transmitter for transmitting a signal using a backscattered signal, and to at least one or more groups of a plurality of different de...