ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,676, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Itron Inc. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).
"Bluetooth low energy (BLE) advertising packet security" was invented by Isaiah Michael Weber (Spokane, Wash.) and Bret Gregory Holmdahl (Greenacres, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metrology device may include a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations may include generating a challenge message, the challenge message including a challenge; issuing the challenge message in a scannable undirected advertising message; receiving...