ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,736, issued on March 31, was assigned to North Carolina State University (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Self-powered Bluetooth backscatter sensor system" was invented by Jordan Besnoff (Raleigh, N.C.) and David Ricketts (Raleigh, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure presents self-powered Bluetooth backscatter sensor systems and related methods. One such system comprises a wearable sensor device having communication circuitry, sensor circuitry, and at least one sweat-activated cell for powering the sensor circuitry; and a transmitter device having an interface for receiving power supplied from a power interface of an electro...