ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,757, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Continuity of applications across devices" was invented by Lawrence Y. Yang (Bellevue, Wash.), Patrick L. Coffman (San Francisco) and Craig M. Federighi (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At an electronic device, detecting a compatible external device, where the external device is executing or has executed a first application. The detection may be made wirelessly. The electronic device also receives usage information regarding the first application from the external device. Display an affordance for user selection based on the received inf...