US Patent Issued to Apple on March 3 for "Discovery of and connection to remote devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,322, issued on March 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Discovery of and connection to remote devices" was invented by Jeffrey S. Norris (Saratoga, Calif.), Bruno M. Sommer (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Alexandre Da Veiga (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a signal that indicates a location of a control device that is configured to change an operating state of a controlled device. The method also includes identifying a first visible device and a second visible device in one or more images, matching the first visible device with the control device based on a location of the first visib...