ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,327, issued on March 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Dynamic controller selection for a local area network" was invented by Avinash Reddy Singireddy (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anjali S. Sandesara (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sergey Chemishkian (San Jose, Calif.), Yilok L. Wong (Mountain View, Calif.), Bob Bradley (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael Giles (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device implementing dynamic controller selection may include a processor configured to generate a connectivity graph based on a scan for accessory devices, the connectivity graph including a connectivity metric value for a discovere...