ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,479, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for pairing interactive objects and user devices" was invented by Dev Bhargava (San Francisco) and Alejandro Kauffmann (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to pairing of electronic devices. An example computer-implemented method includes detecting, by an interactive object, user input with the interactive object. The method further includes generating, by the interactive object in response to detecting the user input, a pairing communication for a user device. The pairing communication can inclu...