ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,048, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Efficient communication in limited resource environments" was invented by Dhruv Khati (San Jose, Calif.), Shiva Krishna Narra (San Jose, Calif.), Krishna Myneni (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sanjeevi Balasubramanian (San Jose, Calif.) and Anjaneyulu Maganti (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may detect a message request to send one or more redundant messages to a response network. The one or more messages may contain information previously sent from the electronic device to the response network. The electronic device may determine an ...