ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,591, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Enabling communications between a controlling device and a network-controlled device via a network-connected device service over a mobile communications network" was invented by Kyle Michael Roche (Mercer Island, Wash.) and David Craig Yanacek (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network-connected device service receives a request to establish a communications session with a network-connected device. In response to the request, the service transmits a set of electronic messages to the network-connected device through an access point of the network-conne...