US Patent Issued to Apple on March 18 for "Techniques for sharing device capabilities over a network of user devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,782, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for sharing device capabilities over a network of user devices" was invented by Scott M. Marshall (Los Altos, Calif.), Jeremy A. Wyld (San Diego), Jiten L Mehta (Milpitas, Calif.), Darren Litzinger (Los Gatos, Calif.) and John J. Iarocci (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for generating device cluster capability information for a cluster of devices in a network environment. Capability information can specify capabilities of the devices in the cluster. A first user device can generate device capabilities for th...