ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,753, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Device pairing techniques" was invented by Shuoqi Scott Wang (Redmond, Wash.), Tero J. Patana (Kirkland, Wash.) and James McColl Shields (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to device pairing techniques based on an association between a wireless fingerprint and a target computing device. In examples, wireless signal information associated with nearby computing devices is detected and used to identify a matching wireless fingerprint. For example, the wireless fingerprint may comprise entries for a p...