ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,765, issued on July 14, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Certificate-based pairing of key fob device and control unit" was invented by Eric Peeters (Frisco, Texas) and Jin-Meng Ho (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device, in disclosed embodiments, includes an antenna, transceiver circuitry coupled to the antenna, a memory configured to store a first operation key and instructions, and a processor coupled to the transceiver and to the memory. The processor is configured to execute the instructions stored in the memory to cause the electronic device to, in response to receiving a first transmis...