ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,115, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Sensor data offload" was invented by Neven Klacar (San Diego), Ivo Zatloukal (Brno, Czech Republic), Jeff Hane (Cupertino, Calif.), Karan Sanghi (San Carlos, Calif.), Patrick S. Harper (Oceanside, Calif.), Qing He (San Jose, Calif.) and Sandeep Nair (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system for offloading sensor data processing is disclosed. An aggregation processor circuit may receive multiple data streams from corresponding ones of multiple sensors included in the computer system. The aggregation processor circuit may send a first port...