ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,045, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Cleveland State University (Cleveland).

"Biometric activity based pairing protocols for wearable devices" was invented by Ye Zhu (Westlake, Ohio) and Jafar Pourbemany (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention teaches a method of pairing two user worn devices including collecting first and second biometric activity from respective first and second user worn devices to create first and second biometric signals, processing the first and second biometric signals to create first and second keys and determining if the keys match to allow for pairing of the two user worn devices. T...