ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,522, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Proximity pairing techniques for an accessory device" was invented by Bob Bradley (San Jose, Calif.), Jacob S. Weiss (San Francisco), Michael J. Giles (San Jose, Calif.) and Sriram Hariharan (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and computer-readable medium for pairing two proximate devices. An advertisement message associated with an accessory device may be received by a host device (e.g., a smart phone). The advertisement message may be communicated using a Bluetooth protocol (e.g., BLE)....