US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 4 for "Selection of a coordinator device for an automated environment" (California, Hawaii Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,842, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Selection of a coordinator device for an automated environment" was invented by Anush G. Nadathur (Campbell, Calif.), Srinivas Rama (Cupertino, Calif.), Matthew C. Lucas (San Jose, Calif.), Nathan E. Carroll (San Francisco), Kevin P. McLaughlin (Waikoloa, Hawaii), Thomas A. Dilligan (Cupertino, Calif.) and Arun G. Mathias (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated environment can include multiple controller devices capable of communicating with multiple accessory devices. The controller devices can automatically elect one of their number as a c...