US Patent Issued to Universal Electronics on Dec. 2 for "Configuring an electronic device based on a transaction" (Minnesota, Vermont, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,370, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Configuring an electronic device based on a transaction" was invented by Kurt Roman Thielen (Maple Grove, Minn.), Robert Edward Taylor (Newbury, Vt.), Patrick James Sansonetti (Hopkinton, Mass.), Ryan Michael Melville (Chaska, Minn.) and James Joseph Alviani (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network signal is received indicating a device identifier in response to a transaction involving an electronic device uniquely associated with the device identifier. An entity identifier specific to an entity associated with the transactio...