ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,994, issued on July 15, was assigned to Elo Touch Solutions Inc. (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Zero touch deployment and dynamic configuration" was invented by Michael James Power (San Jose, Calif.), Ragini Rajendra Prasad (Los Altos, Calif.), Haroun Ansari Mohammed Ansari (Mountain View, Calif.), Kenneth North (San Carlos, Calif.), Ahmed Zaytoun (San Jose, Calif.), Oren Lavi Stern (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Praveen George (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and device embodiments for zero touch deployment and dynamic configuration. A management server receives a dynamic configuration value for...