US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 1 for "Accessory device communication utilizing multiple personalities" (Washington, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,056, issued on July 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Accessory device communication utilizing multiple personalities" was invented by Perry Victor Lea (Eagle, Idaho), Krishna Kant Chintalapudi (Redmond, Wash.), Steven William Ranta (Seattle), Gopala Srihari Narlanka (Bellevue, Wash.) and Stanley William Adermann (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a processor, a wireless communication device, and a hardware storage device. The hardware storage device has instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to obtai...