ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,471, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Coordinated set peripheral device pairing and connection management" was invented by Sharib Shamim (Karnataka, India), Raamish Malik (Karnataka, India) and Sidhi Lohia (Haryana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing coordinated set peripheral device pairing and connection management. Pairing a peripheral device to a host device typically involves presenting an option to a user to consent to connecting a discovered device to the host device. In examples, prior to presenting a connect option, a pairing service ob...