ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,473, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Changing companion communication device behavior based on status of wearable device" was invented by Robert D. Watson (Menlo Park, Calif.), David John Shaw (San Diego), Arun Dhyaneshwar Chawan (San Francisco), Matthew Gillette (San Ramon, Calif.), Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta (San Jose, Calif.), Jeffrey Chandler Moore (San Francisco), Patrick Ian Bernhard (San Jose, Calif.), Baek San Chang (San Francisco), Patrick Lee Coffman (San Francisco), Jonathan Anderson Bennett (San Francisco), Anthony Guetta (San Carlos, Calif.), Jahan Christian Minoo (San Francisco) and Keith Walter Rauenbuehler (San Francisco)...