ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,269, issued on March 25, was assigned to View Operating Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multiple interacting systems at a site" 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: "Disclosed are platforms for communicating among one or more otherwise independent systems involved in controlling functions of buildings or other sites having switchable optical devices deployed therein. Such independent systems include a window control system and one or more other independent systems such as systems that control residential hom...