ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,177, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Application specific wake up signals for sidelink systems" was invented by Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego) and Shuanshuan Wu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first user equipment (UE) wakes up a second UE to request information using an application specific sidelink wake up signal (SL-WUS). The first UE determines a sidelink configuration of the second UE that is configured with a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode. The first UE transmits the SL-WUS on a configured resource monitored by the second UE during the DRX mode. A selection of a sequence ...