ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,013, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Signal transmission method and apparatus, terminal device, smart device, and electronic device" was invented by Xusheng Wei (Dongguan, China), Dajie Jiang (Dongguan, China) and Fei Qin (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal transmission method and apparatus, a terminal device, a smart device, and an electronic device, are provided. The signal transmission method includes: sending, by a terminal device, a first signal to a smart device having a backscatter function, and receiving a second signal reflected by the smart device;...