ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,300, issued on April 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Secure pairing of devices" was invented by Christopher Steffen (Rochester, Minn.), Chad Albertson (Rochester, Minn.), Nicholas Ollerich (Rochester, Minn.) and Eric J. Campbell (Rochester, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for pairing two devices for secure communications. A user selects a first device to pair with a second device. The first and second devices have the ability to securely communicate with each other through the use of encrypted communications. An encryption key is written to the first device and then b...