ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,904, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).
"Proximity-based connection for Bluetooth devices" was invented by Pramodh Guruswamy Alathur (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Naganagouda Patil (Westborough, Mass.), Santiago Carvajal (Sagamore Beach, Mass.) and Benjamin Colin Burns (Somerville, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations include approaches for establishing a Bluetooth (BT) connection between devices. One example approach includes: in response to a trigger at a first BT device, attempting to determine a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) from a set of additional BT devices paired to t...