ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,379, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Trondheim, Norway).

"Digital radio communications" was invented by Johan Stridkvist (Trondheim, Norway), Rubin Gerritsen (Trondheim, Norway) and Hans Elfberg (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of digital radio communication between a central device and a peripheral device. The peripheral device transmits a repeated burst of advertising packets on a primary physical channel, each packet comprising an advertising field indicating an availability to form a connection. The advertising field comprises an address identifying the peripheral device. The...