US Patent Issued to Shopify on May 5 for "Methods and systems for enhanced device pairing" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,886, issued on May 5, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Methods and systems for enhanced device pairing" was invented by James David Thomas (Newmarket, Canada) and Gulamhusein Moledina (Bolton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method including receiving, at a first device from a second device, a wireless beacon transmission; obtaining, by the first device from the wireless beacon transmission, an identifier for the second device; initiating, by the first device, a connection to the second device via a local area network using connection parameters determined based on the identifier; and establishing a ...