ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,198, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Automated host recovery of peripheral-initiated communications links" was invented by Maulin Sheth (Central Islip, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: establishing a connection with a peripheral device; storing an identifier of the peripheral device and an operational state of the peripheral device; periodically updating the stored operational state of the peripheral device; subsequent to disconnection of the peripheral device, retrieving the stored operational state of the peripheral device; determining whether the stored opera...