ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,940, issued on Aug. 5.

"System for providing remote interoperation between devices" was invented by Majid Amani (East Greenwich, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides an alternative applications programming interface (API) for a software application to interface with and to control and coordinate the operation of a variety of specialty devices, including a barcode scanning device and a label printing device. In some embodiments, this alternative API is provided via a software application interface module (SAIM) that is remotely accessible to a software application module (SAM) via a computer network. The SAIM prov...