ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,902, issued on March 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Message redundancy between user devices" was invented by Benjamin S. Turner (San Francisco), Blake S. Kaplan (San Francisco), Toshiro Yamada (San Francisco), Keith W. Rauenbuehler (San Francisco), Justin N. Wood (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nicholas J. Circosta (Mountain View, Calif.) and Bhaskar P. Sarma (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for managing message redundancy for one or more devices. In one example, a device receives a message from a second device using a transmission protocol, the message comprising a control instru...