ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,860, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Power efficient always-on low energy Bluetooth advertising" was invented by Vishal Agarwal (Bangalore, India), Srivathsa Sridhara (Bengaluru, India) and Christopher Kong Yee Chun (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include systems and methods for balancing battery cycles of paired earbuds. A processor in an earbud charging case may receive battery level information from a first earbud operating in a deep sleep mode, determine a battery differential index (BDI) value, and send an instruction message to the first earbud indicating the firs...