US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 27 for "Controller networks for an accessory management system" (California, Hawaii Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. RE51,096, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Controller networks for an accessory management system" was invented by Andrew Burks (Mountain View, Calif.), Anush G. Nadathur (Campbell, Calif.), Srinivas Rama (Cupertino, Calif.), Kevin P. McLaughlin (Waikoloa, Hawaii), Joe Abuan (Cupertino, Calif.), Dennis Mathews (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Matthew C. Lucas (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Controllers can be used to control the operation of various accessories. Controllers with access to a particular accessory (or group of accessories) can be organized into a controller network to facilitate cont...