ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,010, issued on June 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Over-the-air BLE link-cluster operation" was invented by Yaron Alpert (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Yuval Matar (Kiryat Mozkin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a BLUETOOTH low energy (BLE) link layer (LL) controller configured to maintain links of a link cluster between the device and one or more connected devices that share parameters associated with the link cluster and process packets associated with the links at a LL. The links of the link cluster are established according to a BLE communication standard. The parameters include coordina...