ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,082, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Bluetooth low energy PHY detection and switch" was invented by Guoxin Xie (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), Shawn Shiliang Ding (San Diego), Joby Paily Aliyath (San Ramon, Calif.), Kuang-Ying Hsi (San Diego), Vincent Roussel (Irvine, Calif.) and Yuan Zhuang (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing automatic PHY updates in Bluetooth devices. In some cases, a device might detect the reception of a packet sent with a particular PHY and automatically update the device's physical layer to employ that PHY f...