ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,448, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Distributed communication between devices" was invented by Ahmed M. Soliman (Munich) and Ayman F. Naguib (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for effectuating a transaction by an intermediary. An example method can include instructing a device to monitor a status of a first item, and to transmit a first request for a target item based at least in part on the status of the first item, the target item being a same item type as the first item. Receiving, by the from the device, the first request for the target item. Dete...