ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,179, issued on July 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Device group synchronization" was invented by Jacob Charles Drilling (Seattle), Amit Gupta (Seattle), Rohit Ravindra Patil (Seattle), Mark Aiken (Seattle), Vignesh Viswanat Natraj (Seattle), Michael Chorey (Bellingham, Wash.) and Parth Narendra Acharya (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for synchronizing device group data across different device control applications are described. A device group may include two or more smart home devices that may be controlled/supported by different device control applications. A user may set up device gr...