US Patent Issued to Universal Electronics on Aug. 26 for "System and method for providing an adaptive user interface on an electronic appliance" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,472, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Santa Ana, Calif.).

"System and method for providing an adaptive user interface on an electronic appliance" was invented by Olav B. M. Pouw (Lochem, Netherlands) and Patrick H. Hayes (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controllable device, such as a set top box, responds to a transmission received from a one of a plurality of controlling devices of differing capabilities by entering into a one of a plurality of operating modes wherein the one of the plurality of operating modes entered into corresponds to the capabilities of the controlling device...