US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on April 8 for "Automated pairing of devices based on proximity detection" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,720, issued on April 8, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automated pairing of devices based on proximity detection" was invented by Joel Ephraim Bud (Tel Aviv, Israel), Arie Yehuda Gur (Kiryat Ono, Israel) and Oren Istrin (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices are automatically paired (e.g., without user involvement) for wireless communication based on proximity. A first device may authorize (e.g., wired or wireless) bridge device(s) to participate in (e.g., initiate) pairing first and second devices. The first or bridge devices engage in wireless proximity communication with sec...