ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,354, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to MERLYN MIND INC. (New York).
"Context-sensitive customization of remote-control unit" was invented by Deepak Akkil (Helsinki), Prasenjit Dey (Kolkata, India), Ravindranath Kokku (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Shom Surendran Ponoth (Irvine, Calif.), Helene Irene Alonso (New York), Sean O'Hara (fort Montgomery, N.Y.) and Satya V. Nitta (Cross River, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of customizing contextual controls of a remote-control unit (RCU) having a plurality of user interface elements is disclosed. A processor within the RCU receives context information from an integrated output dev...