US Patent Issued to Universal Electronics on Feb. 4 for "System and method for optimized appliance control" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,601, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method for optimized appliance control" was invented by Paul D. Arling (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Brian Barnett (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to a detected presence of an intended target appliance within a logical topography of controllable appliances identity information associated with the intended target appliance is used to automatically add to a graphical user interface of a controlling device an icon representative of the intended target appliance and to create at a Universal Control Engine a listing of c...