Stockholm: Dr. Jaap Haartsen, who invented Bluetooth while working at Ericsson in the 1990s, has been nominated as a finalist by the European Patent Office (EPO) in the industry category for its European Inventor Award.
Bluetooth, a low energy, peer-to-peer wireless technology was born in an Ericsson lab in Lund, Sweden in the 1990's and became a global standard of short distance wireless connection. After ten years, in 2008, the amount of Bluetooth-enabled devices shipped was already 2 billion.
Today, the technology is used not only by mobile phones and PCs, but also by almost all consumer electronics devices, medical and health devices, sports and fitness devices, cars and smart homes.