US Patent Issued to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES on March 17 for "Automated device pairing" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,532, issued on March 17, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Automated device pairing" was invented by James Zarakas (Centreville, Va.) and Saleem Sangi (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to creating a connection between two devices without using a UUID and/or MAC address. For example, a first device can store a private key for creating a secure connection. A second device may request that a user log into an account associated with the first device (e.g., a customer account, a financial account, an employee account, and/or the like) in order to initiate the wireless connection. T...