US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 15 for "Electronic devices with delay-based distributed computing" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,841, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic devices with delay-based distributed computing" was invented by Sabine Roessel (Munich), Bernhard Raaf (Neuried, Germany), Robert Zaus (Munich), Christian Drewes (Germering, Germany), Matthias Sauer (San Jose, Calif.) and Josef Hausner (Germering, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A primary device may run a software application requiring a compute task. The primary device may receive statistics from a set of secondary devices over wireless communication links. The primary device may process the statistics to determine whether the compute task w...