ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,993, issued on June 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Target wake time probe response or beacon for extended personal area network" was invented by Sushma Rayapati (Hyderabad, India), Vamsi Sanka (Hyderabad, India), Sriman Miryala (Hyderabad, India) and Ashwini Kumar Singh (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a central device may receive, from a peripheral device, a probe request in a first extended personal area network (XPAN) time window. The central device may transmit, to the peripheral device in the fi...