ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,677, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Network-based remote control" was invented by Daniel Danciu (Zurich), Yaniv Bernstein (Glebe, Australia), Ramona Bobohalma (Zurich), Oliver Heckmann (Rueschlikon, Switzerland), Jasmine Kent (Bach, Switzerland) and Alin Sinpalean (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of the present disclosure can be implemented by, among other things, a remote control device configured to receive an identifier, present a plurality of controllable devices for selection on a display of the remote control device, and receive a selection of two or more contr...