ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,134, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for performing actions on network-connected objects in response to reminders on devices based on an action criterion" was invented by David G. Wittke (Simi Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for performing actions on network-connected objects in response to reminders on devices. An input from a first user device is received wherein keywords of the input correspond to an action identifier corresponding to an action. The system determines a plurality of network-connected devices capable of pe...