ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,425, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for multiple control of IoT device on basis of C2C account linkage in wireless LAN system in smart home environment" was invented by Byungjoo Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Jeonghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Youngjun Jo (Seoul, South Korea) and Hangyu Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are a method and a device for multiple control of an IoT controlee device on the basis of C2C account linkage in a wireless LAN system in a smart home environment. Specifically, a first control device connects to a first cloud o...