ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,002, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Separation notifications for wireless accessories" was invented by Ernst Thomas Erdmann IV (San Francisco), Sriram Hariharan (San Jose, Calif.), Brent M. Ledvina (San Francisco), Scott Lopatin (San Francisco) and Robert W. Mayor (Half Moon Bay, 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 comprising establishing a wireless connection with a beacon peripheral, monitoring a connection state of the wireless connectio...