US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on Nov. 18 for "Rearrangement of operation icons for operation terminal and home appliance control system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,074, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Rearrangement of operation icons for operation terminal and home appliance control system" was invented by Hiromitsu Kanada (Tokyo), Rina Shimizu (Tokyo) and Yoshio Harada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation terminal includes a display unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The display unit displays, for functions included in a home appliance, operation icons individually corresponding to the functions in association with control instruction information that instructs execution of the functions. The storage unit stores information on a relat...