ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,419, issued on June 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Coordinating adjustments to composite graphical user interfaces generated by multiple devices" was invented by Brian D. Pietsch (Foster City, Calif.), Jianhong Jiang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kevin W. Mar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Thomas R. Powell (San Francisco) and Glenn A. Anderson (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a user device can coordinate adjustments to a composite GUI generated in cooperation with an accessory device that presents the composite graphical user interface. For example, the user device can receive configuration...