US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 4 for "Granting permissions and accesses to devices and third parties" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,833, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Granting permissions and accesses to devices and third parties" was invented by Manuel Roman Cuesta (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Brandon K. Leventhal (San Francisco), Keith W. Rauenbuehler (San Francisco) and Florian Galdo (Emerald Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure include a method for delegating the authority to create a token from an owner of a property to a sharing platform managing the reservation of the property. A method can include receiving a request to delegate authority for generating a token for a one or more accessory devic...