US Patent Issued to Apple on May 6 for "Cloud-based proximity pairing and switching for peer-to-peer devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,927, issued on May 6, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Cloud-based proximity pairing and switching for peer-to-peer devices" was invented by Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa (Santa Clara, Calif.), Craig P. Dooley (Los Gatos, Calif.), David John Shaw (Ramona, Calif.), Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Jason Giles (San Jose, Calif.) and Sriram Hariharan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first wireless communication device (UE device) associated with a certain user (or included in a specified set/group of UE devices) may establish a first communication link with an accessory device a...