ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,713, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Printer discovery and ranking" was invented by Swetha Nandyalam Suresh (Karnataka, India), Mahesh Venkateshwaran (Karnataka, India) and Srivaths Janakiraman Mohan (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Printers are ranked and the printer ranks are provided to a user during printer discovery. A wireless configuration at an access point may include ranks for the printers along with access policies for the printers. The access policies are used to provide a list of available printers to a user. The ranks of the available printers ...