ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,858, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System and method for locating wireless accessories" was invented by Scott Lopatin (San Francisco), Emmanuel Lalande (San Francisco), Lawrence T. Lu (San Francisco), Robert W. Mayor (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Siva Ganesh Movva (Cupertino, Calif.), Raghunandan K. Pai (Saratoga, Calif.), Munish K. Poonia (San Jose, Calif.), Tommy Rochette (San Jose, Calif.), Sam Schaevitz (Los Gatos, Calif.), Yannick L. Sierra (San Francisco), Navin Bindiganavile Suparna (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Langford Wasada (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described her...