US Patent Issued to BlackBerry on Nov. 25 for "Internet-of-things devices and methods of controlling power thereto" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,797, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Internet-of-things devices and methods of controlling power thereto" was invented by Mahendra Fuleshwar Prasad (Waterloo, Canada), Scott Leonard Dill (Paris, Canada), Cortez Corley (Waterloo, Canada), Jonathan Quinn Brubacher (Waterloo, Canada) and Ying Tong Man (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Internet of Things device and method for controlling the flow of power to a device through remote instructions. The device may include a battery and a switch coupling the battery to a main circuit, the switch including a sensor detecting a first con...