ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,833, issued on July 28, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Function executing device and terminal device for executing wireless communication according to bluetooth low energy" was invented by Hirotaka Asakura (Nagoya, Japan), Takuya Inoue (Nisshin, Japan) and Munehisa Matsuda (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A function executing device may comprise a first wireless interface according to a Bluetooth Low Energy scheme being capable of repeatedly sending an advertising signal. The function executing device may after a first advertising signal in which a first radio field intensity is used has been sent f...