ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,616, issued on March 3, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automated configuration of software systems using images of computing devices or peripherals" was invented by Jan Lutter (Ahlen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for automated configuration of software systems using images of computing devices or peripherals. The system may receive an image depicting one or more computing devices or peripherals. Based on the received images, the system may determine a device model of the one or more computing devices...