ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,304, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Controlling a media device using a mobile device" was invented by Andy Belk (Portola Valley, Calif.), Augustin Prats (San Francisco), Joakim Linde (Palo Alto, Calif.), Lucas Newman (San Francisco), Nicholas J. Paulson (San Francisco) and Thomas Matthieu Alsina (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for automatically configuring and controlling a digital media device are described. A digital media device can be configured or controlled by a mobile device, e.g., a smart mobile phone. When the digital media device is being configured, the d...