ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,734, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Systems for provisioning devices" was invented by Umesh Simkhada (Kirkland, Wash.), Brandon Whitehead (Kirkland, Wash.), Parthik Pradipkumar Teli (Sammamish, Wash.), Thomas Gregory Hinman (Seattle), David Isbister (San Franciso, Calif.) and Alejandro Steckler (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for provisioning components. For instance, a component may be initially provisioned by a first system. To initially provision the component, the component may receive first data representing a uniform device typ...