ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,324, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ON THE WAY LLC (Irving, Texas).

"Systems and methods for linking devices and protecting data" was invented by Niraj Bhatia (Irving, Texas), Jacob Pena (Irving, Texas), Anita Srivastava (Irving, Texas) and Arjun Srivastava (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for linking devices and protecting data. One method includes receiving, from an inviter device, a link up request associated with a link up location, establishing one or more data channels with the inviter device, providing the link up request to each of a plurality of invitee d...