ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,111, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ELO TOUCH SOLUTIONS INC. (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Device controller and viewer" was invented by Kenneth North (San Carlos, Calif.), Ragini Rajendra Prasad (Fremont, Calif.), Michael James Power (San Jose, Calif.), Haroun Ansari Mohammed Ansari (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Neeraj Pendse (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus and computer program product embodiments are provided for distributing and installing content and settings on client devices without receiving any user input at the client devices, which limit usage of the client device a user at the client device to a ...