ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,740, issued on June 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Resource connectivity for multiple devices" was invented by Jesse Johnston (San Jose, Calif.), James Daniel Hawkins (Los Angeles), Shiba Sheikh (San Francisco), Jonathan Mann (Venice, Calif.) and Claudius van der Merwe (Camden Wyoming, Del.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for improving resource connectivity for users' various computing devices are disclosed. An example method may include establishing a local connection with a sending device, receiving device status information and task status information from the sending device using the local connect...