US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on June 30 for "Transmitting Bluetooth signals using WiFi hardware" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,618, issued on June 30, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Transmitting Bluetooth signals using WiFi hardware" was invented by Kang G. Shin (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Hsun-Wei Cho (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is presented that enables transmitting data packets decodable in accordance with a first wireless communication protocol using a transmitter configured in accordance with a second wireless communication protocol. In an example implementation of this disclosure, Bluetooth decodable packets can be sent with existing and widely-deployed WiFi devices without mod...