ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,889, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"BLE multicast service" was invented by Yaron Alpert (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Kaian Elmahdy (Ramla, Israel) and Maxim Altshul (Kadima, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes broadcasting, by a multicast anchor, a first message that advertises a multicast service for a multicast group, and receiving, by the multicast anchor from a BLE device, a unicast message that indicates a request to join a BLE device to the multicast group. The method further includes joining, by the multicast anchor, the BLE device to the multicast group as a multicast clien...