US Patent Issued to Universal Electronics on Nov. 18 for "System and method for facilitating appliance control via a smart device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,779, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method for facilitating appliance control via a smart device" was invented by Jesus Perez (Fontana, Calif.), Joven Jubilo (Anaheim, Calif.), Rex Xu (Tustin, Calif.), Jeffrey Kohanek (Westminster, Calif.) and Brandt Thompson (Newport Coast, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bridge device, in communication with a smart device, functions to command one or more controllable appliances in response to communications received from the smart device. The bridge device also includes input elements by which the bridge device can be used to ...