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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2001
Daniel L. Neagley, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Scott D. Briles, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Don M. Coates, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Samuel M. Freund, Los Alamos, NM (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Abstract
A long-range communications apparatus utilizing modulated-reflector technology is described. The apparatus includes an energy-transmitting base station and remote units that do not emit radiation in order to communicate with the base station since modulated-reflector technology is used whereby information is attached to an RF carrier wave originating from the base station which is reflected by the remote unit back to the base station. Since the remote unit does not emit radiation, only a low-power power source is required for its operation. Information from the base station is transmitted to the remote unit using a transmitter and receiver, respectively. The range of such a communications system is determined by the properties of a modulated-reflector half-duplex link.