ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,783, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method of providing universal mobile internet proxy printing" was invented by Rahul Kachalia (Cary, N.C.) and Kali Prasanna Mishra (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method to enable printing on legacy devices. The method includes discovering a legacy device that does not have a universal record that enables the legacy device to provide services to a mobile device through a network, appending the universal record for the legacy device, transmitting the universal record for the legacy device to a controller, receiving, ...