US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Range extension of ambient internet of things devices" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,234, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Range extension of ambient internet of things devices" was invented by Muhammad Majid Butt (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus, and device for communicating with an extended range. The apparatus is a network apparatus communicating an ambient internet of things device having an energy storage and capability to transmitting data by backscattering a radio transmission. The apparatus detects that the device has failed to transfer data by the backscattering and responsively sends to the device a first radio transmission having ...