US Patent Issued to Afero on June 17 for "System and method for IoT device identification and initialization using Bluetooth advertising channels" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,053, issued on June 17, was assigned to Afero Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"System and method for IoT device identification and initialization using Bluetooth advertising channels" was invented by Dave Roberts (Los Altos, Calif.) and Kerry Quinn (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are described for identifying an IoT device model from a key broadcast in an advertising channel. For example, one embodiment of a system comprises: a target Internet of Things (IoT) device to transmit a key over a Bluetooth (BT) advertising channel, the key associated with a model of the target IoT device; mobile application...