ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,506, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Device type detection" was invented by Krzysztof Marcin Walczak (Sammamish, Wash.), Sujan Kumar Gonugondla (Bridgewater, N.J.), Niranjini Rajagopal (Seattle), Cameron Dean Whitehouse (Seattle), Venkatesh Rao (Bellevue, Wash.), Bharathan Balaji (Seattle) and Karan Aggarwal (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed implementations determine transient distortions, amplitude distortions, and/or periodic distortions present in a voltage signal measured from an electrical circuit at a location and use those distortions to determine a device type of a dev...