ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,965, issued on April 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Dynamic group membership for devices" was invented by Mitchell D. Adler (Cupertino, Calif.), Michael Brouwer (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew R. Whalley (San Francisco), John C. Hurley (Santa Clara, Calif.), Richard F. Murphy (Boulder Creek, Calif.) and David P. Finkelstein (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for a first device that identifies definitions of different groups of devices, each of which is defined by a set of properties required for a device to be a member. The method monitors properties of the first device...