ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,216, issued on March 31, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managed automatic pairing" was invented by Harpreet Narula (Austin, Texas) and Kameel Ashok Vohra (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In (IT) managed automatic paring, short-range wireless (e.g., Bluetooth(R)) (peripheral) devices are configured to add an advertisement packet to a short-range wireless device advertisement. A managing Information Handling System (IHS) detects and parses out the advertisement packet from the advertisement, pairs with the device, generates a short-range wireless device identifier using the advertisement packet, stores...