ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,818, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG (Munich).

"Method of operating an internet-of-things device and energy harvesting signal" was invented by Lilei Wang (Munich), Daniela Raddino (Munich), Rania Morsi (Munich) and Yashwanth Ramesh (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of operating an internet-of-things (IoT) device. An internet-of-things device with an energy storage is provided. An energy harvesting signal is transmitted over-the-air. The energy harvesting signal provides energy to be stored in the energy storage. The energy harvesting signal i...