ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,268, issued on March 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Location data harvesting and pruning for wireless accessory devices" was invented by Jonathan R. Schoenberg (Fishers, Ind.), Adam M. Driscoll (Atherton, Calif.), E. Thomas Erdmann IV (San Francisco), Emmanuel Lalande (San Francisco), Michael C. Laster (Santa Clara, Calif.), Scott Lopatin (San Francisco), Robert W. Mayor (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Siva Ganesh Movva (Cupertino, Calif.), Munish K. Poonia (San Jose, Calif.), Tommy Rochette (San Jose, Calif.), Christina Selle (Los Altos, Calif.), Langford M. Wasada (San Francisco), Swadesh Bhattacharya (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Raghunandan K. Pai (Saratoga, Calif.) and...