ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,383, issued on June 23, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and device for performing communication based on backscatter in wireless communication system" was invented by Song Min Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Kangmin Bae (Daejeon, South Korea) and Namjo Ahn (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device includes an interrogator configured to output interrogation signals including consecutive unit chirp signals that change from a first frequency to a second frequency, and a backscatter tag configured to receive the interrogation signals and freq...