US Patent Issued to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings on Aug. 26 for "Method and apparatus for associating a first device with a second device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,842, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Method and apparatus for associating a first device with a second device" was invented by Serge Defrance (Rennes, France), Sylvain Lelievre (Montgermont, France) and Corinne Poree (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a first device may receive from a second device a message comprising an authentication element and credentials associating the second device with a user identifier. The first device may obtain a set of features based on data captured by a sensor of the first device when a user is near the senso...