ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,490, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Reducing bluetooth connection latency using selective GATT cache requests" was invented by Jason Paul O'Broin (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a first device obtains generic attribute (GATT) information from a second device. The first device also obtains long term key information by forming a Bluetooth connection with a second device. The first device performs an exchange with the second device to validate the long term key information. The first device obtains, based on the exchange, updated GATT information from the ...