US Patent Issued to Apple on July 7 for "Distributed device location finding" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,111, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Distributed device location finding" was invented by Mads N. Paulin (Vejle, Denmark), Scott Lopatin (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Jonathan R. Schoenberg (Fishers, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, an electronic device includes a communications radio, memory to store instructions, one or more processors to execute the instructions, where the instructions cause the one or more processors to receive a request for location information for a target accessory device associated with an owner electronic device, wherein the request includes a data packet wit...