US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 3 for "Ranking wireless streaming devices based on proximity" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,144, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Ranking wireless streaming devices based on proximity" was invented by Yagil Burowski (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Robert W. Brumley (San Jose, Calif.), Charles W. Duyk (San Francisco), Ron Eyal (Herzliya, Israel) and Yunxing Ye (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, the device may include conducting ranging with one or more playback devices to determine ranging information between the mobile device and each of the one or more playback devices, where the one or more playback devices are configured to play the streaming data when received ...