US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 22 for "Proximity estimation for universal control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,162, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Proximity estimation for universal control" was invented by Benjamin A. Werner (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin J. Van Vechten (Montecito, Calif.), Robert W. Mayor (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Brent M. Ledvina (San Francisco), Brian G. Kilberg (Berkeley, Calif.), Subash Marri Sridhar (San Jose, Calif.) and Alejandro A. Rodriguez (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects a first electronic device may detect a triggering condition for enabling control of a second electronic device. Upon detection of the triggering condition, the method can include de...