ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,447, 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 receiving a first message from a second device, the first message comprising a request for a first item, wherein the first message is received by a backend process executing on the first device. A second message that includes a request for a first information associated with the first item, can be t...