US Patent Issued to Apple on June 2 for "Personal internet-of-things network discovery" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,875, issued on June 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Personal internet-of-things network discovery" was invented by Sudeep Manithara Vamanan (Uttenreuth, Germany), Behrouz Aghili (San Diego), Biljana Badic (Munich) and Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Internet of things (IoT) network (PIN) element is configured to receive, from a PIN element management capability (PEMC) device, an announcement comprising a PIN identifier, a list of services available via the PIN and a time limit for responding to the announcement, send, to the PEMC in response to the announcement, a PIN join request com...