ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,587, issued on March 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Managing hopping target wake times for wireless networks" was invented by Srikant Kuppa (Fremont, Calif.), Sandip Homchaudhuri (San Jose, Calif.), Yongchun Xiao (Fremont, Calif.) and Hao-Jen Cheng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A station (STA) may receive a first signal including an indication of a set of frequency channels for a set of target wake time (TWT) sessions that recur according to a service interval. In some examples, the first signal may indicate a respective freq...