ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,236, issued on June 23, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"BLE link-cluster architecture" was invented by Yaron Alpert (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Yuval Matar (Kiryat Mozkin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a BLUETOOTH low energy (BLE) link layer (LL) controller configured to maintain a link cluster including multiple links between the device and one or more connected devices that share parameters associated with the link cluster and to process data associated with the links of the link cluster at a LL. The links of the link cluster established according to a BLE communication standard. The devic...