US Patent Issued to Universal Electronics on May 20 for "Apparatus, system and method for app discovery and installation" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,226, issued on May 20, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Apparatus, system and method for app discovery and installation" was invented by Curtis Deptuck (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Nicu Ahmadi (San Francisco), Prasanna Moodlamakki Prabhakara (Bangalore, India) and Sarika Desai (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information obtained from a smart device is used to determine a unique identity for the smart device. The identity for the smart device is then used to locate installed app information for the smart device. Data for installing one or more apps corresponding to the installed app information...