US Patent Issued to Viam on April 7 for "Fleet management system and method" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,174, issued on April 7, was assigned to Viam Inc. (New York).

"Fleet management system and method" was invented by Eliot Horowitz (New York) and Eric Daniels (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In variants, a fleet management method can include: determining information about a device; and sending information to the device, including authentication credentials, wherein the device can authenticate itself with other devices within the fleet using the authentication credentials. The fleet management system can function to scalably manage the operation and permissioning of one or more fleets of devices."

The patent was filed on June...