ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,317, issued on June 17, was assigned to Omnissa LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Connected provisioning" was invented by Kishore Krishnakumar (Atlanta), Vijay Chari Narayan (Johns Creek, Ga.), Brooks Peppin (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Paul Adam Ryman (Sydney) and Rob Schlotman (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments for provisioning client devices. An enterprise credential can be obtained from a provisioning service. A client device can send an enrollment request to a management service specific to the enterprise associated with the client device. The management service can send an enrollment respon...