ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,722, issued on March 3, was assigned to BLANCCO TECHNOLOGY GROUP IP OY (Joensuu, Finland).

"System and method for direct device communication with diagnostics and provisioning" was invented by Jonathan Villareal (Austin, Texas), Russ B. Ernst (Austin, Texas), Daniel Oberg (Joensuu, Finland), Markus Torma (Joensuu, Finland) and Tomi Lehtola (Joensuu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems and methods for mobile device diagnostics and provisioning, whereby connections are effectuated to communicate directly with hardware of mobile devices to perform diagnostics and other functions such as device erasure witho...