ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,506, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for configuring cell wake-up signal in wireless communications" was invented by Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego), Marwen Zorgui (San Diego) and Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide a lower power sleep procedure at network entities to reduce network power consumption. Network entities may monitor for a wake-up signal (WUS) from at least one user equipment (UE) during configured WUS occasions while operating in such a lower power mode. A WUS configuration ma...