ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,957, issued on Jan. 27.

"Writing a configuration file to flash memory on a server" was invented by Alexandru Cozma (Bucharest, Romania), Fred Allison Bower III (Durham, N.C.), Jeffery J Van Heuklon (Rochester, Minn.) and Shubhadip Deb (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes temporarily connecting a mobile computing device to a service input/output port of a server, wherein the service input/output port provides access to a flash memory, and wherein the mobile computing device runs a mobile application. The mobile application causes the mobile computing device to write a configuration file, operating system and fi...