ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,777, issued on March 18, was assigned to TRANSFORM SR BRANDS LLC (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

"System, apparatus, and media for changing state of an internet of things (IoT) device" was invented by Ajaykumar R. Idnani (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), Jonathan Meeks (Evanston, Ill.) and Angel Favila (Lake In The Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed that process requested changes to operating parameters of an Internet of Things (IoT) device. In some embodiments, a client computing device originates a requested change to the IoT device. An IoT services system may process the requested change and ...