ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,390, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Transmission and reception without precise timing capability" was invented by Jeongho Jeon (San Jose, Calif.), Ebrahim MolavianJazi (San Jose, Calif.) and Aristides Papasakellariou (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods for transmission and reception without precise timing capability. A method for an Internet of Things (IoT) device to communicate with a reader includes receiving a physical reader-to-device channel (PRDCH) from the reader and determining a transmission timing of a physical device-to-reader channel (P...