US Patent Issued to SONY on July 15 for "Wake-up transmission on a separate carrier" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,638, issued on July 15, was assigned to SONY Corp. (Tokyo).

"Wake-up transmission on a separate carrier" was invented by Kare Agardh (Rydeback, Sweden), Nafiseh Mazloum (Lund, Sweden) and Rickard Ljung (Helsingborg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes communicating, from an access node (111, 112) of a network (100) and to a terminal (101), a wake-up signal (4003) on a first carrier (280, 280-1) occupying a first frequency band (281); and in response to communicating the wake-up signal (4003): communicating at least one further signal (4002, 4004, 4005, 4050) on a second carrier (280-2) occupying a second frequency...