ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,353, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Non-waking maintenance of near owner state" was invented by Benjamin A. Detwiler (Encinitas, Calif.), Brent M. Ledvina (San Francisco), Kenneth U. Victa (San Jose, Calif.), Langford M. Wasada (San Diego) and Yannick L. Sierra (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide for a mobile electronic device including a wireless network interface coupled to a bus, a memory device coupled to the bus, and one or more processors coupled to the bus, the one or more processors to execute instructions to perform a scan, via the wireless net...