ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,422, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Wake-up alignment method, system, and related apparatus" was invented by Fanfan Zhao (Shanghai) and Yuhua Guo (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes: sending a first cycle to a central node device, wherein the first cycle is a wake-up cycle of the first subnode device; receiving a second cycle and a reference time point, wherein the second cycle is determined by the central node device based on the first cycle; and adjusting a first original wake-up time point of the first subnode device to a ...