US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 16 for "Techniques for electing a leader device in a network of user devices" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,855, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for electing a leader device in a network of user devices" was invented by Jeremy A. Wyld (San Diego), John J. Iarocci (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Jared S. Grubb (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for selecting a leader device from a cluster of user devices. In one example, a user device determines a series of metrics specifying capabilities of the user device. The user device can obtain a number of user identifiers (UIDs) from other user devices in the cluster providing respective series of metrics specifying capabilities ...