US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 10 for "Energy harvesting tag random access and uplink scheduling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,065, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Energy harvesting tag random access and uplink scheduling" was invented by Zhifei Fan (San Diego), Chengjin Zhang (San Diego) and Michael Mitrani (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for wireless communications. For example, a first device can receive one or more energizing signals from a second device. The first device can store energy from power from the one or more energizing signals. The first device can compare an amount of the energy being harvested to an energy threshold value. The first device can search for a wakeup ...