ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,616, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Future Dial Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"System and method for resetting computing devices" was invented by Chen Chen (San Ramon, Calif.), Yueting Zhang (San Jose, Calif.) and Jisheng Li (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may receive a request for a reset file from a mobile computing device over the network. A system may output the reset file to the mobile computing device, wherein the reset file is in an Android Package Kit file format. A system may receive device information from the mobile computing device. A system may store the device information as received in a tran...