US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 3 for "Interim connections for providing secure communication of content between devices" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,170, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Interim connections for providing secure communication of content between devices" was invented by Travis Jay Popkave (Seattle), Jessica Bourgade (Seattle), Mark Derek Raymond Jr. (Redmond, Wash.), Bryan Kim Mamaril (Seattle), Regina Hajin Son (Seattle), Corey Joseph Loman (Seattle) and Cassandra Lynn Hoef (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system that controls an interim connection between two computing devices. The system first determines if a person if physically present at the host device by detecting...