ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,390, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Ambient power energizer control" was invented by Stephen Jay Shellhammer (Ramona, Calif.), Bin Tian (San Diego), George Cherian (San Diego), Alfred Asterjadhi (San Diego) and Pooria Pakrooh (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for ambient power energizer control. Some aspects more specifically relate to utilizing silent periods during which an energy providing device does not transmit radio frequency (RF) energizing waveform to avoid interference. In some implementations, a reader may t...