ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,941, issued on April 8, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Efficient procedures to create Bluetooth LE central connection on an advertiser" was invented by Manamohan D. Mysore (Ramona, Calif.), James Wihardja (Tustin, Calif.) and Victor Zhodzishsky (Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques for a device that wants to be a central device when creating a connection in a communication network such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to advertise information associated with a connection window to solicit a connection with a scanning peer device. When the scanning peer device receives the...