ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,682, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Bitstrata Systems Inc. (Saskatoon, Canada).

"Wireless communications protocol with disconnection tolerance" was invented by Ian Robert Meier (Saskatoon, Canada) and Michael David Lockerbie (Saskatoon, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method which utilizes the benefits of both advertising and bidirectional connections to allow a client/receiving device to receive data, e.g. sensor measurements, from the source/transmitting device during device discovery and connection, thereby minimizing the amount of time during which data, e.g. measurements, ...