US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 23 for "Home automation device control and designation" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,863, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Home automation device control and designation" was invented by Eddy Zexin Liang (Seattle), Xinze Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Madhu Chinthakunta (Saratoga, Calif.) and William Caruso (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated digital assistant on an electronic device are provided. In particular, this paper describes how the intelligent automated digital assistant can be leveraged with other types of commands to control a household having multiple home automation devices. A portable electronic devic...