ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,036, issued on July 8.

"Systems and methods for saving and restoring scenes in a multimedia system" was invented by Alan Cannistraro (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Recommending and activating scenes in a multimedia system are provided. The techniques of the present disclosure can allow the states of the components in the multimedia system to be captured in a scene. Once the scene has been saved, the scene can be activated at a later time. A controller device for recommending scenes by comparing the current state with states of components in saved scenes is also provided. The controller device can also determine if media...