ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,694, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The Chamberlain Group LLC (Oak Brook, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for selectively generating and transmitting wireless advertisements" was invented by Edward Bandyk (Woodridge, Ill.), Edward Andrew Nelson (North Aurora, Ill.) and Daniel James Even (Downers Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for communicating status and event information between a first device and a second device. The method includes the first device transmitting a status advertisement to the second device at a first transmission rate. The method further includes the first device detecting a trigger event triggeri...