ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,666, issued on May 13, was assigned to VeriFone Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Systems, methods and devices for Bluetooth numeric comparison pairing" was invented by James Murray (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for Bluetooth numeric comparison pairing between a handheld payment terminal and a base station that is incapable of displaying digits of a base station Bluetooth pairing code are disclosed. A handheld payment terminal computer program may initiate Bluetooth numeric pairing with a base station; generate a handheld payment terminal Bluetooth pairing code; capture a coded light sequence emitted by...