Dr. Jaap Haartsen, Dr. Jaap Haartsen, who invented Bluetooth while working at Ericsson in the 1990s, has been nominated as a finalist by the European Patent Office in the industry category for its European Inventor Award. The award is granted annually by the European Patent Office (EPO) to outstanding inventors for their contribution to technological, social and economic progress.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.When the technology celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2008, the amount of Bluetooth-enabled devices shipped in ten years 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. (An Instant research report predicted last year that 2billion Bluetooth...