ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,179, issued on July 15, was assigned to FITBIT INC. (San Francisco).
"Secure pairing of devices via pairing facilitator-intermediary device" was invented by Heiko Gernot Albert Panther (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present inventions, in one aspect, are directed to systems and circuitry for and/or methods of establishing communication having one or more pairing facilitator-intermediary devices (for example, a network connected server) to enable or facilitate pairing and/or registering at least two devices (e.g., (i) a portable biometric monitoring device and (ii) a smartphone, laptop and/or tablet) to, for examp...