US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 24 for "Beam sweeping to improve the range of wireless power transfer" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,870, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Beam sweeping to improve the range of wireless power transfer" was invented by Raviteja Patchava (San Diego) and Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. The techniques described herein relate to beam sweeping to improve the range of wireless power transfer. An energy harvesting user equipment (UE) receives, from a network entity, an indication of a set of time resources associated with a beam sweeping transmission (e.g., polling operation) by the network entity and one or...