ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,600, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to The Diablo Canyon Collective LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"Designer control devices" was invented by Steven Wayne Goldstein (Delray Beach, Fla.) and John Usher (Beer, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device configurable to couple to one or more devices having different control functions and a method of facilitating remote control of at least one device having different control functions includes a processor that receives an instruction for at least one of the control functions and additional information from the at least one device, the processor including a plurality of processi...