US Patent Issued to Apple on March 25 for "Coordinating modifications by multiple users to a shared automated environment by initiating a pair setup process with an accessory" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,697, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Coordinating modifications by multiple users to a shared automated environment by initiating a pair setup process with an accessory" was invented by Matthew C. Lucas (San Jose, Calif.), Anush G. Nadathur (Campbell, Calif.) and Nathan E. Carroll (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Modifications made by multiple controller devices to an environment model describing a shared automated environment can be coordinated. One of the controller devices can be designated as a coordinator, and any controller device other than the coordinator can send an update r...