ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,153, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Provisioning computing devices" was invented by Sumukh A. Shevde (Encinitas, Calif.) and Nazih Almalki (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example manager device includes processing circuitry; and a storage device that stores instructions executable by the processing circuitry to: obtain usage data from a plurality of devices, wherein each device of the plurality of devices is associated with one or more device types of a plurality of device types, and wherein each device type of the plurality of device types specifies a usage behavior; store...