US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on Oct. 14 for "Firmware upload using BLE connection to Bluetooth mesh firmware distributor node" (Hungarian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,403, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Firmware upload using BLE connection to Bluetooth mesh firmware distributor node" was invented by Tamas Somhegyi (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for uploading a new firmware image to a distributor node is disclosed. The distributor node is part of a Bluetooth mesh network. In some embodiments, one of an initiator node or the distributor node includes a GATT database. A GATT client (which may be the distributor node or the initiator node) connects with the GATT database and BLE messages are used to transmit the fir...