ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,706, issued on May 27, was assigned to May Patents Ltd. (Hod-Hasharon, Israel).
"System and method for server based control" was invented by Yehuda Binder (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Benjamin Maytal (Mevasseret Zion, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method in a building or vehicle for an actuator operation in response to a sensor according to a control logic, the system comprising a router or a gateway communicating with a device associated with the sensor and a device associated with the actuator over in-building or in-vehicle networks, and an external Internet-connected control server associated with the control logic...