ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,956, issued on Dec. 2.
"Techniques for load balancing with a hub device and multiple endpoints" was invented by Jared S. Grubb (San Francisco), Robert M. Stewart (San Jose, Calif.), Gabriel Sanchez (San Jose, Calif.), Zaka ur Rehman Ashraf (Pleasanton, Calif.) and David J. Chandler (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for managing the connection assignments of a plurality of accessory devices to one or more hub devices. In one example, a user device acting as a leader device receives an assignment request from an accessory device. The user device may obtain information corresponding to hub attributes from...