ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,832, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ABL IP Holding LLC (Atlanta).

"Wall-mounted controller with anti-tamper feature" was invented by Richard L. Westrick Jr. (Social Circle, Ga.), John R. Johnson (Flowery Branch, Ga.) and Dylan A. D'Cruz (New Haven, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a controller includes: obtaining calibration data for a mounting orientation of the controller operating in a calibration mode based on obtaining first acceleration samples from an acceleration sensor; obtaining second acceleration samples from the acceleration sensor when a control switch is activated with the controller opera...