US Patent Issued to Apple on April 7 for "Swapping roles between untethered wirelessly connected devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,438, issued on April 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Swapping roles between untethered wirelessly connected devices" was invented by Sriram Hariharan (San Jose, Calif.), Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta (San Jose, Calif.), Tad J. Dreier (Castro Valley, Calif.), Christopher S. Wiebe (Cupertino, Calif.), Ashley N. Saulsbury (Los Gatos, Calif.), Duy N. Phan (San Jose, Calif.), David J. Shaw (Ramona, Calif.), Robert D. Watson (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Augustin Prats (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for performing a role swapping operati...