US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 9 for "Pairing protocol for peripherals with a secure function" (American, Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,913, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Pairing protocol for peripherals with a secure function" was invented by Kyle C. Brogle (San Francisco), Wade Benson (San Jose, Calif.), Sean P. Devlin (New York), Lucie Kucerova (Chodoun, Czech Republic), Thomas P. Mensch (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yannick L. Sierra (San Francisco) and Tomislav Suchan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provided techniques to enable peripherals configured to provide secure functionality. A secure circuit on a peripheral device can be paired with a secure circuit on a host device outside of a fa...