US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on July 28 for "Wake-up packet based coordination of broadcasting device responses" (Swedish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,124, issued on July 28, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Wake-up packet based coordination of broadcasting device responses" was invented by Miguel Lopez (Solna, Sweden), Guido Roland Hiertz (Aachen, Germany), Leif Wilhelmsson (Lund, Sweden) and Henrik Sjoland (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless-local area network access point (101, 102; 800; 1100) sends at least one wake-up packet for activating broadcasting devices (21, 22, 23, 24) in vicinity of the wireless-local area network access point (101, 102; 800; 1100). In response to the at least one wake-up packet, the wireless-loc...