ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,324, issued on March 18, was assigned to Lowe's Cos. Inc. (Mooresville, N.C.).
"Operation-specific device configuration" was invented by Balajee Thachakkadu Mohan (Marietta, Ga.), Dheeraj Kysetti (Bengaluru, India), Saravanan Rajendran (Chennai, India) and Vighnesh S Kumar (Kerala, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for configuring a device for a specific task or set of tasks thereby allowing the device to be used for more than one task or set of tasks while also enabling fine-grain control over how the device may be used. A device's file system can operate with a particular file system based on t...