US Patent Issued to Silicon Laboratories on June 23 for "Energy efficient Bluetooth Mesh friendship" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,477, issued on June 23, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Energy efficient Bluetooth Mesh friendship" was invented by Hannu Mallat (Hyvinkaa, Finland) and Jori Rintahaka (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of techniques that can reduce the power consumed by a low power node in a Bluetooth Mesh network are disclosed. One technique allows the low power node to receive more than one queued message from a friend node in a single packet, thereby reducing the number of transmissions required of the low power node. Another technique allows the low power node to utilize link layer device filte...