ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,866, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Automatic, secure and bulk onboarding of devices" was invented by Jitendra Behera (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a device onboarding system, a computer program product, and a parent charger for bulk onboarding onto a cloud-based system, devices, having at least one parent device capable of communicating with the cloud-based system and/or child device(s) connected to the parent device, are provided, and include obtaining, from the parent device onboarding parameters associated with each of the devices, dynamically obtaining device verification data...