ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,198, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"System, apparatus and method for detecting and avoiding periodic unresponsiveness of a receiver" was invented by Karthik Gunturi (Hyderabad, India), Varinder Romley (Hyderabad, India), Sunit Pujari (Hyderabad, India) and Govardhan Reddy Polu (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method includes: transmitting, from a transmitter, a first packet to a device wirelessly coupled to the transmitter; in response to not receiving a response regarding the first packet from the device, retransmitting the first packet until a response...