ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,895, issued on June 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for low power transmission using backscattering" was invented by Jianglei Ma (Ottawa) and Alireza Bayesteh (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present application relate to mobile communication devices having active device components and passive device components and, more particularly, to operation of the passive device components to form a backscatter signal from a received forward signal. Forming the backscatter signal may include generating the backscatter signal from the received forward signal without d...