ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,827, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to B&W Group Ltd. (Worthing, Great Britain).

"Automated programming of a remote control" was invented by Gaylord Yu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device that obtains a set of remote-control commands is described. During operation, the electronic device may receive an image associated with a second electronic device, where a brand a model of the second electronic device are initially unknown to the electronic device. Then, the electronic device may perform image analysis on the image to determine at least the brand of the second electronic device. Moreover, the electro...