ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,895, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Secure pairing and pairing lock for accessory devices" was invented by Siva Ganesh Movva (Cupertino, Calif.), Raghunandan K. Pai (Saratoga, Calif.) and Yannick L. Sierra (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a service to enable a user to track a variety of even when those devices are not connected to the internet by either Wi-Fi or cellular. One embodiment provides techniques to enable a pairing registration for a wireless accessory device that enables a server-mediated pairing process to be performed between the wire...