US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 18 for "Associating multiple user accounts with a content output device" (California, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,501, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Associating multiple user accounts with a content output device" was invented by Peter J. Hare (San Francisco), Vijay Sundaram (San Ramon, Calif.), Sudhakar N. Mambakkam (San Jose, Calif.), Venkatesh Venishetty (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vamsi K. Kondadasula (Milpitas, Calif.) and Quenton D. Jones (Layton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device implementing a system to associate a user account with a content output device includes at least one processor configured to receive an invitation to access content associated with a first user account on another device...