ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,529, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Secure provisioning of an edge device using a fiducical marker" was invented by Thibaut Pierre Grandmougin (London), Graham Robert Smith (Trowbridge, Great Britain) and Nimay Bharat Mehta (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An update deployment service performs secure provisioning of an edge device using a fiducial marker. A client registers an edge device with a provisioning service of a remote service provider network by providing a unique device ID. When the edge device is turned on, the edge device detects, based on input from a camera of the device, ...