ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,510, issued on July 7, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Implementation of attachment for passive IoT device communication with ambient energy source" was invented by Muhammad Majid Butt (Naperville, Ill.), Ahlem Khlass (Massy, France) and Rapeepat Ratasuk (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a system, apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium related to attachment procedures for passive Internet of Things (IoT) device communication with ambient energy sources, wherein a reader node is caused to, receive an association response message from a radio access network (RAN) node, t...