ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,397, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods of low power on ear-buds in a BTOIP (WI-FI) topology" was invented by Gopinath Patra (Bangalore, India), Richard Turner (Belfast, Great Britain), Sandip Homchaudhuri (San Jose, Calif.), Derrick Chu Lin (Hillsborough, Calif.), Mayank Batra (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Benjamin James Campbell (Bury St Edmunds, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are provided that improve power management for devices communicating via Bluetooth (BT) over Internet Protocol (BTOIP). The apparatus for wireless communicati...