ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,228, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Low-power wakeup radio signaling in wireless communications" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.), Wanshi Chen (San Diego), Linhai He (San Diego), Peter Gaal (San Diego) and Wei Yang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Techniques described herein relate to a user equipment (UE) that may include a wakeup radio in addition to a main radio to monitor for wakeup signals while the UE is in a sleep mode. The wakeup radio receiver may use less power than the ma...