ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,855, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Receiver power-management mechanism and related methods of operation" was invented by Rui Li (San Diego), Bo Wang (San Diego) and Wei Zhuo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuits and methods for operating a receiver in a communication system is disclosed. The receiver analyzes interference power levels at two or more frequency regions within a received signal. The receiver selects a low-power circuit based on the frequency-analyzed interference power for processing the received signal."

The patent was filed on Nov. 28, 2022, under Application N...