ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,187, issued on April 14, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corporation-Lincolnshire, IL (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Pre-authentication for short-range wireless communications with peripheral devices" was invented by Sandeep Hattiholi (Bengaluru, India), Punith Gangadhara (Davanagere, India), Chiranjeevi Kamakshipalya Hanumanthaiah (Bangalore, India) and Pramoda C S (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a host computing device of establishing a short-range wireless connection with a peripheral device includes: responsive to detecting the peripheral device, initiating a pairing mechanism with the peripheral device; ...