ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,082, issued on April 15, was assigned to HTC Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Devices, host device and non-transitory computer readable storage medium" was invented by Chang-Hua Wei (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Sheng-Cherng Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Pei-Pin Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management method for multiple communication devices, wherein the multiple communication devices include a host device and a first peripheral device configured to electrically connect to a device platform, and the management method includes: by the host device, detecting a connection of the first peripheral device through the device platform; ...