ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,568, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System for link management between multiple communication chips" was invented by Helena Deirdre O'Shea (San Jose, Calif.), Camille Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Vijay Kumar Ramamurthi (Milpitas, Calif.), Alon Paycher (Beit Hanania, Israel), Matthias Sauer (San Jose, Calif.) and Bernd Adler (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to an integrated circuit of an electronic device that coordinates activities with another integrated circuit of the electronic device. The integrated circuit includes an interface circuit and a processor circuit. ...