ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,087, issued on July 28, was assigned to Lenovo (United States) Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Synchronizing devices based on a temporary ID mismatch" was invented by Andreas Kunz (Ladenburg, Germany) and Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran (Friedrichsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to transmitting a first request message comprising a first set of parameters. Aspects of the present disclosure may relate to receiving a first response message comprising an indication that a device is unreachable. Aspects of the present disclosure may relate to resetting a sequence number (SQN) and a devi...