ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,886, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Hippo Harvest Inc..

"Control space operating system" was invented by Eitan Marder-Eppstein (San Francisco), Wim Meeussen (Redwood City, Calif.) and Alexander Boenig (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control space operating system. The system includes a control space with one or more data source zones and a control space manager. The control space manager can collect data and control different variables across different data source zones in order to determine optimal policies and conditions for data source growth and generation."

The patent was filed on Feb. 22, 2021, under Ap...