ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,936, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Brilliant NextGen Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Automatic scene creation using home device control" was invented by Aaron T. Emigh (Incline Village, Nev.), Steven Stanek (Fremont, Calif.), Jeremy Hiatt (San Mateo, Calif.) and Ashley Chou (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed system of home device controllers can control a set of home devices. A home device controller of the system can determine a set of configurations for a set of home devices being repeatedly configured by a user. The controller can automatically display a selectable feature indicating a suggested scene ...