ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,756, issued on May 6, was assigned to UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS INC. (Santa Ana, Calif.).
"System and method for facilitating an enabling of a device functionality" was invented by Varun Pratap Singh Chauhan (Agra, India) and Sarika Desai (Blore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method facilitates an enabling of a functionality of a first device by causing a first data that identifies the first device to be used to determine that the first device supports the functionality, determining that the functionality of the first device is not enabled, and causing a set of instructions for enabling the functionality of the first ...