US Patent Issued to Inter IKEA Systems on July 29 for "Method and device for controlling a smart device" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,318, issued on July 29, was assigned to Inter IKEA Systems B.V. (LN Delft, Netherlands).

"Method and device for controlling a smart device" was invented by Samuel MacDermot (Salford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a smart device is provided. The method comprises identifying a user-furniture interaction activity of a user interacting with a home furnishing product by analyzing sensor data, captured by an imaging sensor, depicting a scene of the user interacting with the home furnishing product. The method further comprises comparing the user-furniture interaction activity against a set of predete...