ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,887, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Beken Corp. (Shanghai).

"Communication range enhancement method" was invented by Mengxing Zhu (Shanghai), Yantao Li (Shanghai), Jiewei Zheng (Shanghai), Tongxin Zhang (Shanghai) and Guochu Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure addresses a system and a method for enhancing a communication range between a first device and a second device communicatively coupled to the first device. The method includes scanning within a first range of the first device to determine a first list of connectable devices; instructing, by the first device, the second device to scan within ...