US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 9 for "Data migration synchronization process using a manifest from a source device to a new destination device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,623, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Data migration synchronization process using a manifest from a source device to a new destination device" was invented by Jean-Pierre Ciudad (San Francisco), George C. Chicioreanu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yan Arrouye (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a computing device may configure a new device based on a current state of an old device, including settings, preferences, and other user data. The data may be transferred from the old device to the new device, and then relocated according to a manifest that details positions ...