US Patent Issued to Pioneer Square Brands on Aug. 4 for "Portable electronic device management system" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,763, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Pioneer Square Brands Inc. (High Point, N.C.).

"Portable electronic device management system" was invented by Quentin Wade Forbes (Winston Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing docking and authentication of computing devices includes detecting when a computing device docks with a docking station, identifying the device by extracting a unique identifier, and authenticating a user via an external interface. Upon successful authentication, a configuration profile is retrieved from a centralized management server and transmitted to the device over a secure channel. The devi...