ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,022, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Wake-up signal for non-data services" was invented by Ahmed Elshafie (San Diego), Marwen Zorgui (San Diego), Huilin Xu (Temecula, Calif.) and Yuchul Kim (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects presented herein may improve the efficiency, latency, and power consumption of a UE performing non-data operations/service(s), such as RF sensing, UE positioning, and/or RFID processing, etc., as the UE may be triggered to perform the non-data operations/service(s) based on monitoring a low-power wake-up signal (LP-WUS) using a low-power wake-up radio (LP-WUR) circuit...