ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,459, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Apparatus, system and method of bluetooth role switch" was invented by Nir Goldfish (Petah Tikva, Israel), Sunil Kumar (Cupertino, Calif.), Nir Balaban (Kfar Netter, Israel), Oren Haggai (Kefar Sava, Israel), Hakan Magnus Eriksson (Portland, Ore.), Prasanna Desai (Elfin Forest, Calif.) and Srinivas Krovvidi (Telengana, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For example, a first Bluetooth (BT) device may be configured to operate in a role of a peripheral device over a BT link between the first BT device and a second BT device; and to initiate a role switch to ...