US Patent Issued to Siemens on May 27 for "Computer implemented method and distributed computing infrastructure for automated plug and play configuration" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,730, issued on May 27, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Computer implemented method and distributed computing infrastructure for automated plug and play configuration" was invented by Frank Buschmann (Munich) and Lars Gelbke (Mansfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a computer-implemented method for automated configuration of a joining computing device into a computing system. The method may include: using a device management service to listen for messages from joining devices; connecting via secure shell and factory default credentials to a discovered device; configuri...