ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,291, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus control device, apparatus control method, and recording medium" was invented by Toshiaki Kanamura (Ome, Japan) and Atsushi Shibutani (Tokorozawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus control device includes a processor that acquires a stimulus acting on an apparatus from an outside, and sets an action time based on the acquired stimulus data, the action time being related to a behavior that a user of the apparatus habitually performs, the action time being a time at which the apparatus acts."

The patent was filed on Feb. 22, 2023, under ...