ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,144, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Initiating joint gaming applications" was invented by Joshua Elman (Mountain View, Calif.), Keith P. Kowalczykowski (San Francisco), Jacqueline Jiang (Cupertino, Calif.), Sunnet A. Owens (Foster City, Calif.), Justin R. Etzine (San Jose, Calif.), Adam Y. Syed (San Francisco), Zhehong An (Cupertino, Calif.), Wan Ling Yih (San Francisco), Philip A. Smith (Davis, Calif.) and Brandon D. Bloom (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an electronic device detects a first user input corresponding to a request to initiate a joint gaming appli...