ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,906, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Optimizing power consumption in IOT devices with TWT using long sleep intervals" was invented by Atul Suresh Joshi (Pune, India), Nitesh Kumar Shah (Hyderabad, India), Ram Krishna Poricha (Hyderabad, India), Seemakurty S N S V R Ritesh (Kakinada, India) and Sunit Pujari (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and Wi-Fi devices that utilize the target wait time (TWT) feature of the Wi-Fi specification are disclosed. These methods reduce power consumption by selectively listening to only a portion of the beacons that are transmitted by ...