ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,916, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Device setup/configuration using activation card" was invented by Kenneth Luke Kocienda (Mill Valley, Calif.), Imran A. Chaudhri (San Francisco), Paul Miller (San Francisco) and Ralph Brunner (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for device setup and configuration using an activation card. In some embodiments, a method comprises: sending an activation card to a user, the activation card for setting up or configuring a device for the user using an online service, the activation card including one or more c...