ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,795, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Bluetooth network establishing system and method" was invented by Weifeng Mao (Jiangsu Province, China), Zhuwei Lu (Jiangsu Province, China), Jidong Chen (Jiangsu Province, China) and Zuomin Li (Jiangsu Province, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Bluetooth network establishing system and method are provided. The system includes a plurality of node devices and a gateway device. The gateway device is used to connect a Bluetooth network to an external network. A first node device of the node devices broadcasts a first inquiry operation. In res...