ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,072, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Beacons having service-specific information" was invented by Harbeer Singh (Hyderabad, India), Vamsi Sanka (Hyderabad, India), Sudhanshu Singh (Hyderabad, India), Manjoosha Guduri (Secunderabad, India) and Sai Vamshi Ragiphani (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless communication device (WCD) may receive a beacon from a second WCD, the beacon including an indication of service-specific information associated with the second WCD. The WCD may j...