ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,941, issued on July 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Device state reversion" was invented by Dustin D Clark (Austin, Texas), Maisie Wang (Seattle) and Sven Eberhardt (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for device state reversion are disclosed. For example, a requested and/or scheduled device state change may occur, and prior to the device state change, devices may be queried for their device states. This prior device state data may be saved. A user may provide an undo request and the prior device state data may be utilized along with current device state data to select a device to rever...