US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 18 for "Uniform communication protocols for communication between controllers and accessories" (California, Hawaii Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,318, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Uniform communication protocols for communication between controllers and accessories" was invented by Joe Abuan (Cupertino, Calif.), Bob Bradley (San Jose, Calif.), Craig Dooley (Los Gatos, Calif.), Gregg Golembeski Jr. (San Francisco), Andrew Burks (Mountain View, Calif.), Srinivas Rama (Cupertino, Calif.), Arun Mathias (Los Gatos, Calif.), Anush Nadathur (Campbell, Calif.) and Kevin P. McLaughlin (Waikoloa, Hawaii).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A uniform protocol can facilitate secure, authenticated communication between a controller device and an accessory d...