ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,810, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Caavo Inc (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Automatic testing of home entertainment automation systems for controlling connected devices" was invented by Nino V. Marino (Alameda, Calif.), Sharath H. Satheesh (Bangalore, India), Ashish D. Aggarwal (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.), Shivam Khandelwal (Jaipur, India) and Neha Mittal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for testing communication with a device. A multimedia receiver may be communicatively coupled to a media device, such as a source media device. The multimedia receiver may transmit a test comma...