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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026

Filed:

Apr. 26, 2021
Applicant:

The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);

Inventors:

Hamed Rahmani, Belle Mead, NJ (US);

Aydin Babakhani, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/38 (2018.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/38 (2018.02); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

Distributed wireless sensor networks are described. In an embodiment, a distributed wireless sensor network (WSN) system includes: a set of wirelessly powered microchips, and a radio frequency (RF) transceiver, wherein the RF transceiver is configured to transmit RF signals, several of the set of wirelessly powered microchips is configured to be activated when placed in proximity to the RF transceiver transmitting RF signals, each of the several sets of wirelessly powered microchips is configured to radiate back a signal, and the signals radiated by the set of wirelessly powered microchips is coherent in phase and frequency to the RF transceiver.


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