ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,187, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Out of band bluetooth synchronization transfer" was invented by Lauri Hintsala (Jokikunta, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for transferring Bluetooth synchronization from a first Bluetooth device to a second Bluetooth device is disclosed. The first Bluetooth device may already be connected to a remote Bluetooth device. The method includes synchronizing time between the first Bluetooth device and a second Bluetooth device. After time has been synchronized, all relevant information concerning the connection is transmitted to ...