ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,269, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for secure provisioning of detector units" was invented by MingHao Sun (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for secure provisioning of a detector unit are provided. An example method includes detecting, via a short-range communication interface, a coupling between a terminal and a detector unit; responsive to the coupling, obtaining, via one or more processors, identification information uniquely identifying the detector unit; transmitting, via a wireless communication network, the identification informatio...