ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,961, issued on April 7, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).
"Local device embeddings for automation" was invented by Sven Eberhardt (Seattle), Amir Salimi (Seattle), Jin Long Lee (Seattle), Maisie Wang (Seattle), Akanksha Gupta (Seattle), Kaustubh Anilkumar Vibhute (Austin, Texas), Biwei Tao (Vancouver, Canada) and Caglar Iskender (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques are generally described for local device embeddings for automation. In various examples, first data representing first state change data for network-connected computing devices configured in communication with a first netw...