ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,644, issued on May 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Wireless accessory advertisements" was invented by Marco Soldano (Cupertino, Calif.), Shawn G. Fink (Cupertino, Calif.), Anita G. Desai (Cupertino, Calif.), Antonio R. De Lima Fernandes (Cupertino, Calif.), Siva Ganesh Movva (Cupertino, Calif.) and Ariane Cotte (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, devices and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for identifying, by a processor of a wireless device that is coupled with a charging case, an enable command received from the charging case; and transmitting, by the...