ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,196, issued on March 31, was assigned to Axon Enterprise Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Method for management of device update transmission" was invented by Karthik Narasimhan (Westin, Fla.), David B. Mesri (Paradise Valley, Ariz.), Phu Thanh Bao Tran (Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam), Shlesh Tiwari (Phoenix), Christopher J. Cavage (Bellevue, Wash.) and Shane Michael Wilson (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field device is configured to determine whether a device update is to be transmitted to a central server. The field device determines a period of time between an update time and a previous update time and a set of device conditions asso...