ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,130, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Tracking device user account information" was invented by Isaac Lagnado (Spring, Texas) and Christopher Charles Mohrman (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of host devices are described herein. In some examples, a host device may include a tracking device to receive user account information. In some examples, the tracking device may receive user account information wirelessly. In some examples, the host device includes a basic input/output system (BIOS) to store the user account information delivered from the tracking devic...