ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,633, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Techniques for enrolling a device or service using a proximity channel and a cloud channel" was invented by Kadirvel Chockalingam Vanniarajan (Padur, India), Sachin P. Joglekar (Bothel, Wash.), Temesghen Kahsai Azene (Union City, Calif.), Firas Azrai (Austin, Texas) and Naveen Kumar Thangavel (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are provided for establishing trust between devices using a proximity channel and a cloud channel. An enrollee device and manager may perform a mutual authentication process where grant codes ...