ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,820, issued on June 23, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Method and system for file deployment via dynamically assigned local relays" was invented by Paul Hurford (Camberley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a first client computing device among a plurality of client computing devices connected to a local area network (LAN) includes: receiving an update instruction from a device management subsystem external to the LAN; in response to receiving the update instruction, obtaining status data via the LAN for each of the client computing devices; based on the status data, determining...