ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,675, issued on May 26, was assigned to Magic Leap Inc. (Plantation, Fla.).

"Pairing with companion device" was invented by Nitin Singh (Fremont, Calif.) and Adrian Kaehler (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for device authentication and/or pairing. A display system can comprise a head mountable display, computer memory, and processor(s). In response to receiving a request to authenticate a connection between the display system and a companion device (e.g., controller or other computer device), first data may be determined, the first data based at least partly on biometric data associated w...