ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,472, issued on March 24.
"Configuration of unpowered devices" was invented by Louis-Martin Cote (Montreal) and Mathieu Leduc (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to configurable electronic devices, packaging therefor, electronic device products, as well as methods and systems for configuring configurable electronic devices whilst unpowered. The electronic device includes a housing and a configuration system contained therein. The housing bears a first visual indicia indicative of a location for applying an external electromagnetic field to the electronic device for configuring the same in an unpowe...