ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,554, issued on June 17, was assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Direct media connection of a rear-seat entertainment unit" was invented by Gayatri Dalal (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure set forth a computer-implemented method comprising a mobile device transmitting a discovery request message, identifying, based on a set of discovery response messages associated with the discovery request message, a set of rear-seat entertainment (RSE) units that are available for establishing a direct wireless communications link, generating a first direct wirel...