ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,481, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Adaptive allocation timing for energy harvesting devices" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Linhai He (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Yuchul Kim (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego) and Peter Gaal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. The method may include an energy harvesting (EH) device receiving a first control signal that includes scheduling information for the EH device. The scheduling information may indicate a first set of resources for commu...