US Patent Issued to Shopify on Sept. 23 for "System and method for pairing devices to establish device groups" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,668, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"System and method for pairing devices to establish device groups" was invented by Andrew Ferrier (Montreal), Daanish Maan (Brampton, Canada), Michael Joseph DeFazio (Fonthill, Canada), James Lepp (Ottawa), Hettige Ray Perera Jayatunga (Toronto) and Neil Leonard Padgett (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for pairing devices to establish device groups. The method includes receiving, at a server associated with a plurality of client devices and a plurality of accessory devices, a first request to establish a device group comprising a ...