US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods for broadcasting a wake-up signal to user equipment" (German, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,495, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for broadcasting a wake-up signal to user equipment" was invented by Anatoliy S Ioffe (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alexander Sayenko (Munich), Camila Priale Olivares (Munich), Brandy Jo F Sykes (Bath, Great Britain) and Sharad Sambhwani (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wake-up signal (WUS) network (separate from a cellular network) includes WUS nodes that broadcast WUSs targeting WUS receivers of user equipment (UE). The WUSs may have low frequencies, such as within a television whitespace spectrum. When the cellular network determines tha...