US Patent Issued to Apple on July 21 for "Systems and methods for data storage" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,620, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for data storage" was invented by Srinivas Vedula (Pleasanton, Calif.) and David Cohen (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of devices in a system discover one another and a first electronic device selects a second electronic device from amongst a plurality of devices to coordinate file storage. In some embodiments, the first electronic device and the second electronic device perform an authentication handshake. After performing the authentication handshake, the first electronic device transmits first data to the second...