US Patent Issued to LENOVO (SINGAPORE) on June 2 for "Device and method for determining the status of a used electronic device" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,517, issued on June 2, was assigned to LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Device and method for determining the status of a used electronic device" was invented by Robert James Norton Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.), Justin Ringuette (Cary, N.C.), Sandy Collins (Durham, N.C.) and Kevin W. Beck (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining the status of an electronic device is provided that can include a diagnostic device having a memory to store executable instructions and one or more processors. When implementing the executable instructions, the one or more processors are configured to, in response to coupling to...