ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,232, issued on April 8, was assigned to Sorenson IP Holdings LLC (Salt Lake City).
"Network device maintenance" was invented by Jalaja Ramanadham (Draper, Utah), David Thomson (Bountiful, Utah) and Jasper Cheekeong Pan (Draper, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to access a device may include obtaining, at a first device, data over a short-range wireless network from a second device. The data may originate at a remote system that sends the data to the second device through a network connection over a wide area network. The method may also include in response to a fault at the second device, obtaining, at the first device fr...