ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,045, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Pairing devices by proxy" was invented by Deepak Iyer (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Thomas Alsina (Burlingame, Calif.), Edward T. Schmidt (Burlingame, Calif.), Elena Leyfman (Los Gatos, Calif.), David P. Saracino (Alameda, Calif.), Astrid Yi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Adam A. Sonnanstine (San Francisco), Jonathan A Bennett (San Francisco), Gregory R. Chapman (San Jose, Calif.), Aparna S. Akella (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shreyas Nandagudi Sreesha (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations a system can be configured to reduce the burden of pairin...