ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,267, issued on July 29, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Accessing service application components across multiple devices" was invented by Jiehua Guo (San Diego), Yiwei Zhao (San Jose, Calif.), Juan Chen (Campbell, Calif.) and Xiaofeng Li (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device implements an inter-device inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism by which services on each device in a cluster group may be accessed by other devices in the cluster group using intra-device IPC calls. The inter-device IPC mechanism extends the existing intra-device IPC mechanism so that it may be ...