ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,162, issued on June 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for mobility support for user equipment with backscattering radio" was invented by Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.), Danlu Zhang (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, for one or more nodes, capability information regarding a beam tracking capability of a backscattering radio of the UE. The UE may perform beam tracking in accordance with the beam tracking capability. The UE may trans...