ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,394, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Frequency division multiple access (FDMA) support for wakeup radio (WUR) operation" was invented by Liwen Chu (San Ramon, Calif.), Rui Cao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hongyuan Zhang (Fremont, Calif.) and Hui-Ling Lou (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless network interface of a first client station negotiates with an access point a first component channel of an operating channel via which the first client station is to receive wakeup frames from the access point. A wakeup radio of the first client station receives a wakeup packet from the access p...