ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,463, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hisense Visual Technology Co. Ltd. (Qingdao, China).
"Remote control having hotkeys with dynamically assigned functions" was invented by Sanjiv Sirpal (Oakville, Canada), Mohammed Selim (Oakville, Canada), Salvador Soto (Toronto), Alexander de Paz (Burlington, Canada), Saulo Correia Dourado (Oakville, Canada) and Ron Cassar (Burlington, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent television system provides an operating system and an application framework for controlling a user interface to handle user input events from a handheld remote control. The remote control includes color keys th...