ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,026, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Sensing-based energy harvesting and management for ambient internet of things devices" was invented by Fei Huang (San Diego), Dai Lu (San Diego), Duo Zhang (San Diego), Haohao Qin (San Diego), Weimin Duan (San Diego) and Aziz Gholmieh (Del Mar, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A network entity may implement sensing to assist in energy harvesting. In some examples, the network entity may employ radio-frequency sensing and a learning model to determine locations of an ambient internet of things...