ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,464, issued on June 23, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Optimized sensor networks using bluetooth" was invented by Hannu Mallat (Espoo, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for reducing the probability of collisions in a Bluetooth wireless sensor network is disclosed. The system and method utilize Periodic Advertising with Response to receive status information from the plurality of wireless sensor devices. Therefore, rather than sending the Sensor Status message at random times, the wireless sensor devices are all assigned a response slot in one of the subevents. The relay device rec...