ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,109, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Gateway conformance validation" was invented by Meghan Tushar Raul (San Francisco), Sangeeth Sridharan (San Jose, Calif.), Jorge Fernando Pozas Trevino (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Pablo Antonio Gonzalez Cervantes (San Jose, Calif.), Mohan Singh Randhava (San Carlos, Calif.), Sean Robert Moore (Campbell, Calif.), Todd D. Power (San Carlos, Calif.), Dongsheng Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.), Eric K. Kimn (Cupertino, Calif.) and Pascal B. Pfiffner (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A schema is generated to establish a connection between user devices and...