ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,270, issued on June 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Managing distributed devices using unique codes" was invented by Satishkumar Sadagopan (Leawood, Kan.), Dinesh C. Verma (New Castle, N.Y.), Gerald Coon (Durham, N.C.), Mathews Thomas (Flower Mound, Texas), Utpal Mangla (Toronto) and Pawan Raghunath Chowdhary (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: receiving, from a remote location, a request to generate a unique equipment code identifying a device. Identifying characteristics of the device are determined, and a uni...