ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,805, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to RED BEND LTD. (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

"Detecting and mitigating Bluetooth based attacks" was invented by Jonathan Katz (Lod, Israel), Shachar Mendelowitz (Hertzeliya, Israel), Ori Goldberg (Kiryat Ono, Israel) and Yosef Golan (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods and devices for mitigating Bluetooth (BT) based attacks, using a BT proxy device comprising a first and a second BT interfaces. The BT proxy device is configured to identify a first BT device and a second BT device connected to each other via a BT link, transmit a BT link disconnect to the first an...