US Patent Issued to Snap on Jan. 13 for "Security protocol for pairing collocated users" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,637, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Security protocol for pairing collocated users" was invented by Savanah Frisk (Los Angeles), Andres Monroy-Hernandez (Princeton, N.J.), Quan Thoi Minh Nguyen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yu Jiang Tham (Los Angeles) and Michael Jing Xu (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to perform operations that include: detecting, at a first client device, a second client device in proximity with the first client device; generating a pairing code in response to the detecting the second client device in proximity of the first client device; establishing a communicati...