ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,359, issued on July 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Local automation engine in distributed environment" was invented by Jung-Yu Yeh (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kenneth Mackay (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Local execution of smart device mesh automations with cloud-based failover is described herein. Embodiments operate in context of network-connected devices in a smart device mesh with a local automation system, where all devices communicate with cloud-based automation, and at least some also communicate with local automation. A determination is made whether to claim each automation rout...