US Patent Issued to Apple on June 17 for "Electronic devices with adaptive device-to-device communication switching" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,035, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic devices with adaptive device-to-device communication switching" was invented by Jan K. Ellenbeck (Gruenwald, Germany), Biljana Badic (Munich) and Christian Drewes (Germering, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications network may include a relay device that receives device-to-device (D2D) signals. In an ad hoc mode, the relay may consume relatively little power while receiving relatively few messages from relatively few transmitting devices in the D2D signals. In an organized mode, the device may consume relatively high power while receiv...