ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,102, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Frame structure for synchronous operation of an ambient internet-of-things device" was invented by Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, an ambient Internet-of-Things (IoT) device may receive configuration information indicating resources associated with an uplink trigger message that initiates a communication session between the ambient IoT device and a network device. The ambien...