ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,968, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Physical layer signature for wake-up signals" was invented by Yavuz Yapici (Florham Park, N.J.), Igor Gutman (Hod HaSharon, Israel), Tao Luo (San Diego) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) and network entity may determine a physical layer (PHY) signature for the network entity to include in one or more wake-up signals (WUSs) transmitted to the UE. The UE may use the determined PHY signature to validate a WUS received during a monitoring occasi...