ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,260, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for on-the-fly out of band temporary key derivation and assignment for 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: "A backend management server includes a hardware processor to code instructions of an automatic peripheral device pairing management system to receive a peripheral device identification (PD ID) associated with a wireless peripheral device from a manufacturer and the backend management server generating a...