ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. RE51,041, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Device pairing" was invented by Praveen Kashyap (Irvine, Calif.), Can Gurbag (Irvine, Calif.), Esther Zheng (Irvine, Calif.), Jason Meachum (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Michael Bringle (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for wirelessly connecting a first device with an external second device includes wirelessly communicating between the first device and the external second device. Based on the wireless communication, the first device causes displaying of a dynamic graphic pattern on a display of the external second device...