ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,456, issued on Feb. 17.
"Monitoring Bluetooth device for detecting a proximity of a selected group of Bluetooth devices" was invented by Joseph Lawrence Meloche (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and David Richard French (Saline, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring Bluetooth device for detecting a proximity of a selected group of Bluetooth devices is provided. The monitoring Bluetooth device includes a microprocessor, a Bluetooth transceiver, a memory, and a display device. The memory has a group monitoring application therein. The application determines that first and second Bluetooth signals from first and second Bluetooth devi...