ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,968, issued on April 15, was assigned to Gree Electric Appliances Inc. of Zhuhai (Guangdong, China).

"Smart magic cube controller" was invented by Xiaomin Wu (Guangdong, China), Zehan Tan (Guangdong, China), Shengjie Lin (Guangdong, China), Shaobin Li (Guangdong, China), Yanyu Chen (Guangdong, China), Shengshi Ye (Guangdong, China) and Ru Li (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a smart magic cube controller. The smart magic cube controller includes: a controller body, the controller body has a plurality of surfaces, and at least one surface of the controller body is configured to be a display module; an postur...