ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,223, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Network access tokens for accessories" was invented by Wayne A. Lee (San Francisco), Zaka Ur Rehman Ashraf (Pleasanton, Calif.), Daniel R. Borges (San Francisco), Kyle C. Brogle (San Francisco), Srinivas Rama (Cupertino, Calif.), Benjamin S. Turner (San Francisco), Hung Q. Le (Mountain View, Calif.), Devin E Gund (San Francisco), Keith W. Rauenbuehler (San Francisco) and Praveen Chegondi (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless access device can be configured to determine a list of accessory groups corresponding to accessories connected to a...