ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,779, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Device management system for upgrading telephony device firmware" was invented by Xiaolin Fu (Hefei, China), Karen Kuei Ren Hong (Los Altos, Calif.) and Christopher Marinelarena (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telephony device includes a memory that stores firmware to operate the telephony device. The telephony device includes a network interface that transmits a first command to establish a connection with a telephony server. The telephony device includes a receiver that receives a second command from a device manager. The second c...