ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,273, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Sharing keys for a wireless accessory" was invented by Emmanuel Lalande (San Francisco), Michael C. Laster (Santa Clara, Calif.), Scott Lopatin (San Francisco), Munish K. Poonia (San Jose, Calif.), Tommy Rochette (San Jose, Calif.), Yannick L. Sierra (San Francisco), Tim Taubert (Berlin) and Steven A. Myers (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide for a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions to cause one or more processor to perform operations to share a set of keys used to communicate with a wire...