ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,657, issued on April 7, was assigned to Liqid Inc. (Westminster, Colo.).
"Network instantiated peripheral devices" was invented by James Scott Cannata (Denver), Allen R. Andrews (Broomfield, Colo.) and Henry Lee Harris (Redding, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enhanced apparatuses, systems, and techniques for coupling network-linked peripheral devices into host computing devices is presented. A method includes, over a network interface of a host device, obtaining an indication of a peripheral device available for associating with the host device. Based on the indication, the method includes initiating instantiation of the perip...