ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,894, issued on June 2, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Timing alignment in telecommunication systems" was invented by Knud Knudsen (Aabybro, Denmark), Benny Vejlgaard (Gistrup, Denmark), Jan Torst Hviid (Klarup, Denmark), Johannes Harrebek (Aalborg, Denmark) and Oana-Elena Barbu (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects and embodiments relate generally to mechanisms to support power saving in a wireless communication network and more particularly to supporting discontinuous reception of a wake-up signal receiver at an apparatus comprising a wake-up signal receiver and a main radio receiver. One ...