US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 17 for "Device communication through high-frequency light encoding" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,929, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Device communication through high-frequency light encoding" was invented by Golnaz Abdollahian (San Francisco), Andreas I. Gal (San Mateo, Calif.) and Nader W. Moussa (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments set forth a technique for enabling a computing device to securely communicate with a peripheral computing device. According to some embodiments, the method can include the steps of (1) receiving, at a detection sensor of the computing device, a light signal from the peripheral computing device, wherein the light signal is received at a...