ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,199, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Inter-device communication" was invented by Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Sigen Ye (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.) and Weidong Yang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for communications between user equipment. One of the methods includes receiving, by ...