ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,137, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Dedicated slots for ambient devices" was invented by Zhifei Fan (San Diego), Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Jing Sun (San Diego).
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 reader device may select one or more dedicated slots for communications with ambient devices. The reader device may transmit a helper tone signal and a data tone signal in slots that are among the one or more dedicated slots. Numerous other aspects are described."
The patent was filed on May 15, 2023, u...