ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,574, issued on June 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Content output devices and user interfaces" was invented by Eliza J. Von Hagen (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to outputting light and managing controllable devices. In some examples, an electronic device determines whether to associate a remotely controllable external device with a context based on a set of one or more criteria and in response to receiving a request to associate the remotely controllable external device with the context."
The patent was filed on Aug. 3, 2023, under Application No. 18/230,...