US Patent Issued to Google on June 16 for "Proximity and direction based electronic device pairing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,690, issued on June 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Proximity and direction based electronic device pairing" was invented by Amelia Schladow (Mountain View, Calif.), Philip Dam Roadley-Battin (Mountain View, Calif.), Seth Ryan Benson (Mountain View, Calif.), Matthew Sibigtroth (Mountain View, Calif.) and Tyler John Gough (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements for establishing a link between two electronic devices are presented herein. A pairing mode may be activated to establish the link. A first electronic wireless device can determine that a distance to a second wireless ...