US Patent Issued to Apple on June 30 for "Systems and methods for connecting computing devices" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,113, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for connecting computing devices" was invented by Scott A Long (Boulder, Colo.) and Alain Raynaud (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to controlling hardware resources over an interface. In some embodiments, a first device performs tasks using one or more included hardware resources, including providing a local control stream that controls operation of the one or more hardware resources. In response to detecting a connection to a second device, the first device offloads the tasks to the seco...