ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,493, issued on May 6, was assigned to GENETEC INC. (Saint-Laurent, Canada).

"System and method for device configuration" was invented by Christian Chenard-Lemire (Pointe-Claire, Canada), Scott Melby (Lancaster, Pa.), Charles Desjardins (Laval, Canada), Richard Doyle (Mount Airy, Md.) and Mortimer Hubin (Laval, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device configuration method for a vehicle in a fleet of vehicles comprises, at a computing device communicatively coupled to electronic devices provided in the vehicle, obtaining at least one template configuration file assigned to the computing device based on a user selection, the at le...