ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,428, issued on June 17, was assigned to AVI-On Labs LLC (Park City, Utah).

"Networking systems, protocols, and methods for controlling target devices" was invented by Eric L. Miller (Park City, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for controlling electric and electronic devices. The devices may communicate with each other in a many-to-many, peer-to-peer network to provide control functionality without the need for a central controller. Device-to-device control messages may be implemented over short range, wireless broadcast messages."

The patent was filed on Oct. 22, 2021, under Application No. 17/508...