ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,943, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Preamble design for ambient-internet of things" was invented by Ahmed Abdelaziz Ibrahim Abdelaziz Zewail (San Diego), Zhifei Fan (San Diego) and Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive signaling that includes a preamble having a first subset of bits of the set of bits and a payload having a second subset of bits. In some examples, the second subset of bits may be encoded according to a Manchester encoding scheme. The second subset of bits may include fewer bits than the first subset of bits. In some examples, less than a th...