US Patent Issued to Afero on June 17 for "Apparatus and method for activation and deactivation of devices to prevent unauthorized acquisition and use" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,514, issued on June 17, was assigned to Afero Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for activation and deactivation of devices to prevent unauthorized acquisition and use" was invented by Kerry Quinn (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Scott Bartlett (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for activation and deactivation of devices to prevent unauthorized acquisition and use. For example, one embodiment of a system comprises: an internet of things (IoT) service to receive a first message from a point of sale (POS) system, the first message including a device identifier (ID) to uniquely identify a device purch...