ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,868, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Signaling to wake up a cell" was invented by Yongjun Kwak (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego), Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego) and Hwan Joon Kwon (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Base stations may reduce energy consumption by minimizing the use of periodic signals such as the system information block one (SIB1), which a user equipment (UE) may use to perform a random access channel (RACH) procedure with a base station. A UE may transmit a wake-up signal to the base station requesting ...