ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,558, issued on July 7, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Method and system for decommissioning cloud-connected printers" was invented by Ryan E. Brock (Cary, Ill.), Chris Kenley (Gurnee, Ill.), Andrew J. Pekarske (Mundelein, Ill.), Alok Gaur (Germantown, Md.) and Daniel V. Carroll (Port Barrington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a server includes: receiving, from a client computing device associated with an account identifier, an account deletion request corresponding to the account identifier; retrieving, from a repository, an identifier of a printer associated with the account identifie...