ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,589, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Gree Electric Appliances Inc. of Zhuhai (Guangdong, China).

"Control method, control apparatus and cloud-based control system" was invented by Guixian Mou (Guangdong, China), Qinxin Lin (Guangdong, China), Zongyan Chen (Guangdong, China), Bin Wu (Guangdong, China), Yimou Sun (Guangdong, China), Wenbiao Wen (Guangdong, China), Jinnan Zhou (Guangdong, China) and Liyun Wan (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a control method, a control apparatus and a cloud-based control system, and belongs to the technical field of cloud-based control. The control method inc...