ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,258, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Everactive Inc. (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Wireless receiver apparatus and method" was invented by Kuo-Ken Huang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention include a wakeup receiver (WRX) featuring a charge-domain analog front end (AFE) with parallel radio frequency (RF) rectifier, charge-transfer summation amplifier (CTSA), and successive approximation analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) stages. The WRX operates at very low power and exhibits above-average sensitivity, random pulsed interferer rejections, and yield over process."

The patent was filed on ...