ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,454, issued on June 10, was assigned to Enseo LLC (Plano, Texas).
"Thermostat, system and method for providing awareness in a hospitality environment" was invented by William C. Fang (Plano, Texas), Thomas R. Miller (Plano, Texas) and Vanessa Ogle (Fairview, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing awareness in a hospitality environment are presented. In one embodiment, a vertical and horizontal array of thermostats is provided and each thermostat includes an identification corresponding to a room in which the thermostat is placed. Each thermostat includes a wireless transceiver that periodically transmi...