ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,468, issued on April 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Multi-channel device connection" was invented by Onur E. Tackin (Saratoga, Calif.), Dhruv Samant (Mountain View, Calif.), Mahmut Demir (Dublin, Calif.), Samuel D. Post (Great Falls, Mont.) and Stephen C. Schweizer (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some techniques are described herein for initiating a secure communication between a mount and a computer system. Such techniques include the mount detecting that the computer system is coupled to the mount and, in response, sending a message to the computer system with an identifier of the mount. T...