US Patent Issued to VODAFONE GROUP SERVICES on July 7 for "Methods and apparatus for configuring a device to read data from a sensor" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,913, issued on July 7, was assigned to VODAFONE GROUP SERVICES Ltd. (Newbury, Great Britain).

"Methods and apparatus for configuring a device to read data from a sensor" was invented by Timothy Paul Evans (Newbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of configuring a device to read data from a sensor is provided, the method comprising: determining that a sensor has been connected to an interface of the device and determining an address of the sensor; based on the address of the sensor, identifying a sensor type of the sensor; sending a control script to the device, wherein the control script comprises a set of instru...