ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,287, issued on July 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Bluetooth-based object searching method and electronic device" was invented by Qingfeng Xue (Xi'an, China) and Jiachen Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server receives a search request that includes a first location and an identifier of a Bluetooth device and that is sent by a first terminal; within a first time period, determines at least one second terminal by using a first frequency and a first density in a first search range, and sends a search task that carries the identifier to the at least one second terminal; if the s...