US Patent Issued to Universal Electronics on Dec. 16 for "System and method for configuration of macro commands in a controlling device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,690, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method for configuration of macro commands in a controlling device" was invented by Rex Xu (Tustin, Calif.) and Cesar Alvarado (Orange, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system displays a representation of an original equipment remote control device for a target device to be controlled using a macro button of a configurable controlling device. The displayed representation of the original equipment remote control device includes representations of buttons that would be used on the original equipment remote control device to contro...