ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,534, issued on July 22, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charoltte, N.C.).

"Method to operate the devices for real estate showings" was invented by Sri Sivanagaraju Kosanam (Telangana, India), Vidyasagar Reddy Pentareddy (Telangana, India), Ramesh Lingala (Telangana, India), Adam Kuenzi (Silverton, Ore.), Matthew S. Hill (Sublimity, Ore.), Dean Sinn (Silverton, Ore.), Victor Nguyen (Vancouver, Wash.) and Subhash Reddy Gopavaram (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of staging a listed property for a real-estate showing including: receiving authorization information to access and control one or more in...