US Patent Issued to Afero on April 7 for "Apparatus and method for efficient and secure pairing and communication" (California, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,467, issued on April 7, was assigned to Afero Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for efficient and secure pairing and communication" was invented by Scott Bartlett (Oakland, Calif.) and Bret Jordan (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for efficient and secure pairing and communication. For example, one embodiment comprises a machine-readable medium having program code stored thereon which, when executed by a data processing device, causes the data processing device to perform the operations of: reading a code from an optical label of a peripheral device and providing the code to a service for ...