ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,279, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Lucomm Technologies Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Smart device system" was invented by Lucian Cristache (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semantic sensing system includes a processor, a memory and at least one sensing element, wherein the processor is configured to apply semantic drift or entropy to determine affirmative and non-affirmative circumstances based on inputs from the at least one sensing element to cause the system to perform semantic augmentation towards a first endpoint supervisor in relation with the affirmative and non-affirmative determinations."

The patent was filed o...