ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,770, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Integrated sensor framework for multi-device communication and interoperability" was invented by Richard T. Vaughan (Saratoga, Calif.), Jamil Dhanani (San Francisco), Juan C. Garcia (San Francisco), Seyedmehdi Mohaimenianpour (Cupertino, Calif.), Geoffrey Nagy (Cupertino, Calif.), Timothy S. Paek (Mercer Island, Wash.), Naga Rama Abhishek Pratapa (Seattle) and Muhammad Amir Shafiq (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for an integrated sensor framework are provided. For example, a first electronic device receives at least one input i...