ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,693, issued on June 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Distributed and synchronized bluetooth scan across multiple devices for faster bluetooth discovery" was invented by Yann Ly-Gagnon (San Francisco), Arun Unkn (Cupertino, Calif.), Chen Ganir (San Jose, Calif.), Duy N. Phan (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Langford M. Wasada (Poway, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing a synchronized short range communication protocol scan mechanism across multiple devices. Some aspects relate to an electronic device including a transceiver configured to comm...