ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,001, issued on June 9, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Wake-up radio having stacked circuit configuration with ultra-low power consumption" was invented by Mustafa Koroglu (Austin, Texas), John Khoury (Austin, Texas), Yan Zhou (Spicewood, Texas), Ajmal Vadakkan Kayyil (Corvallis, Ore.) and Vitor Pereira (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a wake-up radio to issue a trigger signal in response to detection of a wake-up message in a radio frequency (RF) signal; and a second radio coupled to the wake-up radio, the second radio to wake up in response to receipt...