US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 4 for "Wi-Fi protocol enhancement techniques utilizing beacon frame and unique identifier for low power networking for the internet-of-things" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,529, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Wi-Fi protocol enhancement techniques utilizing beacon frame and unique identifier for low power networking for the internet-of-things" was invented by Ben Wild (San Francisco), Rob Barton (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ravneet Bajwa (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method enhances Wi-Fi protocol by transmitting an Internet-of-Things (IoT) notification map designated for an IoT device. The IoT notification map having format of at least part of a beacon frame and be included in an IoT beacon frame that, when transmitted by at least one ...