ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,364, issued on May 27.

"Remote coding setting method and receiver for a ceiling fan" was invented by Kuo-Tsun Lin (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote coding setting method is to be implemented by a receiver of a ceiling fan, and includes steps of: (A) when receiving a setting signal during a predetermined time period, obtaining a code length of the setting signal; (B) retrieving, from pre-stored coding data, a piece of coding format information that corresponds to the code length; (C) setting a fan coding format based on the piece of coding format information; and (D) when receiving a control signal after the pr...