US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 16 for "Light-based low power device" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,200, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Light-based low power device" was invented by Edwin Chongwoo Park (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for providing power for target devices. For example, a process can include performing, at an environment infrastructure system, a device discovery procedure to discover a target device in an environment; obtaining power requirement information corresponding to the target device; obtaining a distance between a power providing component of the environment infrastructure system and the target device; determining a power amount...