ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,167, issued on July 7, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).
"Pairing devices using gestures" was invented by Igor Kolych (Lviv, Ukraine), Kiran Uln (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Claudio Rey (Chandler, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A provisioning device includes a user interface, a radio transceiver to communicate with a pairable device, and a controller. The controller is configured to initiate a pairing protocol, via the radio transceiver, with the pairable device. The controller is configured to instruct a user, via the user interface, to perform a gesture with the provisioning device or the p...