US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on March 17 for "Method and device to establish a wireless secure link while maintaining privacy against tracking" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,311, issued on March 17, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and device to establish a wireless secure link while maintaining privacy against tracking" was invented by Johannes Arnoldus Cornelis Bernsen (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to devices and a method to establish a secure wireless link for communication between a first and a second device over a wireless physical channel, wherein a paring protocol requires sending over the wireless channel identifying information by the first device, the identifying information being data suitable for iden...