ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,810, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Formation of user equipment groups" was invented by Parvathanathan Subrahmanya (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sharad Sambhwani (San Diego), Dirk Nickisch (Oberpframmern, Germany), Madhukar K Shanbhag (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rohit U Nabar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sanjeevi Balasubramanian (San Jose, Calif.), Shiva Krishna Narra (San Jose, Calif.), Sriram Subramanian (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tarik Tabet (San Diego), Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yakun Sun (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "User equipment in close proximity may transfer data ...