US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 15 for "Techniques for managing pairing procedures between computing devices and accessory computing devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,904, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for managing pairing procedures between computing devices and accessory computing devices" was invented by Anush G. Nadathur (San Jose, Calif.) and Justin N. Wood (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can be implemented by a computing device that is seeking to pair with an accessory computing device, and includes the steps of (1) obtaining at least an identifier and a setup code associated with the accessory computing device, (2) determining, by scanning a first communications network that is associated with the accessory comput...