US Patent Issued to Promethean on Nov. 18 for "Establishing network connections between devices connected by a media connection" (American, British, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,170, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Promethean Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Establishing network connections between devices connected by a media connection" was invented by Jason Crawford (Brewster, N.Y.), Shom Surendran Ponoth (Irvine, Calif.), Rajkumar Chandrasekaran (San Ramon, Calif.), Inder Paul Bajwa (Tustin, Calif.), Parivallal Gopal (Karnataka, India), Tamer Abuelsaad (Fishkill, N.Y.) and Mark Hall (Norwich, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device management server computer ("server") has a media-only interface to a device and transmits a device identifier to the device over the interface, the device identifier...