ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,566, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Backup procedure for ambient IoT device connectivity through a smartphone" was invented by Muhammad Majid Butt (Naperville, Ill.), Nitin Mangalvedhe (Naperville, Ill.) and Muhammad Tayyab (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory stores instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the user equipment apparatus at least to: receive, from a network device, an instruction to provide backscattering service to at least one a...