ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,517, issued on July 1, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control system, control apparatus, device controlling method and recording medium" was invented by Takashi Arai (Tokyo), Saori Okino (Tokyo) and Satoko Miki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes a cloud server and a terminal device. A checker of the cloud server checks pieces of MAC address data acquired by a machine MAC address acquirer against pieces of MAC address data contained in communicable-machine notification information, and specifies, among the pieces of MAC address data acquired by the machine MAC address acquirer, a piece ...