ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,861, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Brilliant NextGen Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Distributed system of home device controllers" was invented by Aaron T. Emigh (Incline Village, Nev.), Steven Stanek (Fremont, Calif.), Ashley Chou (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jeremy Hiatt (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A home device controller can monitor published state data on a message bus of a distributed system of home device controllers, the published state data indicating current states of home devices connected to each home device controller of the distributed system. The home device controller can detect, from the message bus, ...