ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,879, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Adaptive wake-up cycle for ambient internet of things device" was invented by Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Yuchul Kim (San Diego) and Jing Sun (San Diego).

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, an ambient Internet of Things (A-IoT) device may monitor for a synchronization signal in accordance with a first wake-up cycle associated with a first periodicity. The A-IoT device may monitor for the synchronization signal in accordance with a second wak...