ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,902, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NEWRACOM Inc. (Irvine, Calif.) and NEWRATEK Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and frame structure for ultra-low power receivers based on IEEE 802.11AH" was invented by Heejung Yu (Daejeon, South Korea) and Duk Bai Kim (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a wireless device operating in a wireless network. The method includes generating a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) that includes a preamble portion and a data portion, wherein the preamble portion includes a signal field, wherein the signal field includes a bit that is set to binary '0' to indicate tha...