ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,866, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Bluetooth device and Bluetooth gateway" was invented by Mohit Sethi (Helsinki) and Patrik Salmela (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Bluetooth device (702) is disclosed, the Bluetooth device being provisioned with a security credential (710) that is shared with an authentication server (706). The Bluetooth device comprises processing circuitry configured to use a Bluetooth pairing mechanism to establish a pairing with a Bluetooth gateway (704a-c) by establishing a shared secret key with the Bluetooth gateway and to perform an ...