ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,965, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"System and method to reduce power consumption by using adaptive transmit power during sniff attempts" was invented by Karthik Gunturi (Hyderabad, India), Sunit Pujari (Hyderabad, India), Niranjan Kumar Jonnada (Hyderabad, India) and Venkat Rao Gunturu (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for reducing power consumption by using adaptive transmit power during sniff intervals are disclosed. The central device transmits the first packet of the sniff interval using the previously negotiated transmit power. After the central ...