ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,130, issued on May 5, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Base station state detection for client computing devices" was invented by Venkata Aneel Kumar Inuganti (Bangalore, India), Mahesh Kumar Edar (Davenagere, India) and Darpan Majumder (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in a computing device includes: establishing an association with a base station; initiating a handshake with the base station to obtain an encryption key; prior to transmitting content data associated with an application executing at the computing device, transmitting a test message to the base station, the test mes...