ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,183, issued on June 30, was assigned to Afero Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for reduced latency IOT device control" was invented by Lucas Finkelstein (Santa Clara, Calif.), Stephen Sewerynek (Foster City, Calif.), Benjamin K Gibbs (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christopher Aiuto (San Francisco), Robey Pointer (San Jose, Calif.) and Joe Britt (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for reduced latency control of IoT devices. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: associating a control device with one or more internet of things (IoT) devices, the control device including a wireless interf...