ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,382, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for device identifier composition engine certificate-based security and out-of-band temporary key generation for bluetooth pairing" was invented by Anantha K. Boyapalle (Cedar Park, Texas), Kai Leong Wong (Singapore) and Nicholas D. Grobelny (Evergreen, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes a hardware processor and a memory device to execute code instructions of an automatic peripheral device pairing management system pairing agent to receive, via a wireless interface adapter, a device identifier ...