US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 9 for "Method and apparatus for low energy discovery" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,952, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for low energy discovery" was invented by Arto Palin (Viiala, Finland) and Jukka Reunamaki (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for facilitating efficient device discovery. In regards to a method implemented by a master device, a first identifier is received from a remote source. The method also receives one or more wireless device discovery packets comprising a second identifier from a proximate device, wherein the wireless device discovery packet comprises i...