ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,479, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"System and method for automatic fleet partitioning" was invented by Bret M. Anno (Mundelein, Ill.), Leo T. Lowy (Lake Villa, Ill.) and Ryan E. Brock (Cary, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automatic fleet partitioning includes client devices and a device management server having tag definition and tag assignment repositories. The server receives and stores, in the tag definition repository, definitions with tag assignment criteria; and for each client device: obtains a client identifier and attribute set; for each tag assignment cr...