US Patent Issued to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for applying an identification pattern to an electronic device" (Washington, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,264, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. (Pullman, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for applying an identification pattern to an electronic device" was invented by Alex A. Olson (Pullman, Wash.), Harold R. Klein (Pullman, Wash.) and Cody W. Tews (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacture includes applying an identification pattern over a printed circuit board (PCB), capturing an image of the identification pattern applied to the PCB, associating the image with an additional identification pattern associated with the PCB, and storing the image and the association between th...