ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,223, issued on July 29, was assigned to MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD (Singapore).

"Automatic resending of WUP by slave device" was invented by Hon Wai Fung (Newark, Calif.), Dance Wu (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Liang Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for a slave PHY device retransmitting a waking up command to a master PHY device in a low-power mode. After transmitting a wake-up command to the master PHY device, the slave PHY device starts a timer. If the timer reaches a threshold time, the slave device retransmits the wake-up command."

The patent was filed on April 6, 2022, under Application No. 17/...