ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,533, issued on June 17, was assigned to View Operating Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automated commissioning of controllers in a window network" was invented by Dhairya Shrivastava (Los Altos, Calif.), Stephen Clark Brown (San Mateo, Calif.) and Ronald F. Cadet (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and/or computer program product are described for generating a graphical user interface for providing information and controlling optically switchable windows connected by a network. Windows are graphically represented using interactive smart objects placed within views of the graphical user interface in a man...