US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 8 for "Brokered service discovery and connection management" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,810, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Brokered service discovery and connection management" was invented by Charles W Duyk (San Francisco), Hien M Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.), Huai-Che Lu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Joseph P Saracino (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Quang D Tran (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A discovery broker may facilitate discovering and connecting devices, such as a sender device and receiver device, in a dense environment and/or a network with segmentation. The sender and receiver devices may be connected via the discovery broker based on a machine-readable image including c...