ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,523, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Discovery and configuration of IoT devices" was invented by Paolo Ottaviano (Rome), Andrea Tortosa (Rome), Maximiliano Cammisa (Rome) and Antonio Di Cocco (Rome).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for associating an Internet-of-Things (IoT) device with a wireless network, a method for discovering and logically grouping smart light bulbs, and a smart light bulb. One embodiment may comprise automatically starting a counter on an IoT device in response to initially receiving power from a power supply loop to which the IoT device is connect...