US Patent Issued to Apple on July 14 for "User interfaces for device communications" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,060, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User interfaces for device communications" was invented by Richard R. Dellinger (San Jose, Calif.), Conrad H. Albrecht-Buehler (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tanya G. Kancheva (Mountain View, Calif.), Sylvain P. Rebaud (San Francisco) and Christopher R. Whitney (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A basic console user interface includes an indication that the computer system is attempting to connect to one or more external devices. When the connection is successfully established before a first threshold duration of time is reached, the display is updated with an...