ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,769, issued on March 31, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Body area network with bistatic wireless backscattering devices" was invented by Vivek Jain (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kaustubh Gandhi (Filderstadt, Germany), Sushanta Mohan Rakshit (Milpitas, Calif.) and Abhinav Kunchamwar (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Configuring and utilizing a body area network (BAN) is provided. In a configuration phase, configuration messages are sent for scheduling a plurality of backscatter devices such that during a data collection phase each of the plurality of backscatter devices is configured to transmit in a...