ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,663, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to YUNDING NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (BEIJING) Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Device control methods and systems" was invented by Qi Yi (Beijing), Yanpeng Lyu (Beijing), Jiaming Pan (Beijing), Lei Zhao (Beijing) and Li Fang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and system for controlling a device. The device control method includes: determining one or more sets, wherein the one or more sets include one or more preset rules each of which corresponds to a set of the one or more sets; including a first device into a first set of the one or more s...