ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,746, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Provisioning system for cloud-connected printers" was invented by Andrew J. Pekarske (Mundelein, Ill.), James P. Van Huis (Des Plaines, Ill.) and Ryan E. Brock (Cary, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, in a provisioning server, of provisioning a printer, includes: receiving a provisioning request from the printer, the provisioning request containing (i) a printer identifier, and (ii) an account identifier associated with the printer; obtaining, from a digital certificate issuer, a unique string; sending the unique string to the printer; r...