ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,268, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Frequency division duplexing operation of ambient internet of things device" was invented by Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Raviteja Patchava (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The apparatus may be a network node configured to transmit, to a backscatter-capable device, a first indication of a first frequency range associated with a downlink (DL) transmission, a second indication of a second frequency range associated with an uplink (UL) communication from the backscatter-capable device, and a third indication of a third frequency range associated with an...