ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,285, issued on March 25, was assigned to THINGENIOUS PC (Athens, Greece).

"Method and device for broadcasting messages" was invented by Charalampos Patrikakis (Egaleo, Greece), Aristidis Konstantas (Athens, Greece), Christos Chatzigeorgiou (Egaleo, Greece) and Vasileios Doulgerakis (Egaleo, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for broadcasting messages by means of identification features of existing wireless communication protocols includes identifying, for a received message, a maximum packet length to be broadcasted using a wireless protocol. The method further includes splitting the received message into two or more pac...