ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,330, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Wake-up signal traffic indication techniques for wireless communications" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego) and Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a network entity may use a lower power sleep procedure to reduce power consumption, and monitor for a wake-up signal (WUS) from at least one user equipment (UE) during configured WUS occasions. The WUS from one or more UEs may provide information of one or more attribute...