US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 16 for "Media intercom over a secure device to device communication channel" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,517, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Media intercom over a secure device to device communication channel" was invented by Bob Bradley (San Jose, Calif.) and Marc J. Krochmal (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a communication mechanism that enables electronic device to perform device to device communication using a secure, encrypted, peer-to-peer data connection. The communication mechanism can also be used as a general-purpose communication mechanism that enables smart home device to exchange data, including configuration data. In one embodime...