US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on Dec. 23 for "Method to harvest energy from neighboring nodes within a communications network" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,361, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Method to harvest energy from neighboring nodes within a communications network" was invented by Mustafa Murtaza Shamsi (Bharuch, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for incorporating energy harvesting into a wireless network (e.g., an IoT network) of communications devices (e.g., IoT nodes) enables the nodes to harvest energy from neighboring nodes within the wireless network. The technique configures each node to identify its own energy requirements, to configure a node to be an energy harvesting node that scans the network of nodes for...