ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,424, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Pairing-less device connectivity" was invented by Apoorv Naik (Carlsbad, Calif.), Bharath Bhimanaik Kumar (Sammamish, Wash.), Matthew Todd Kaufman (Truckee, Calif.), Gonzalo Alvarez Barrio (Seattle), Fred Torok (Mercer Island, Wash.), Gilles-Arnaud Bleu-Laine (San Ramon, Calif.), Abraham Martin Passaglia (Seattle), Ajay Gowribidanur Ramesh (Milpitas, Calif.), Choong Ryeol Lee (San Jose, Calif.) and Carlos Leija (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for pairing-less device connectivity are disclosed. For example, a group of primary ...