US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 12 for "Offline device provisioning" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,664, issued on May 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Offline device provisioning" was invented by Morgan Westlee Lunt (Seattle), Alexander I. Tolpin (Redmond, Wash.), Mengxi Chi (Bellevue, Wash.), Balendran Mugundan (Redmond, Wash.), Rajeev Mandayam Vokkarne (Sammamish, Wash.), Nikhil Vithlani (Bellevue, Wash.), Nicole Elaine Berdy (Kirkland, Wash.) and Mahesh Sham Rohera (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provisioning an on-premise device within an on-premise communications network includes connecting, via a network connection, an on-premise gateway system in the on-premise commun...