ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,657, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Foshan Carro Electrical Co. Ltd. (Foshan, China).

"Highly integrated and smart control system and method thereof" was invented by Jian-Sheng Zhang (Foshan, China) and Zi-Jian Chen (Foshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A highly integrated and smart control system includes a control module, a fan driver module, and a light driver module. The control module controls the fan driver module and/or the light driver module. The control module is a control chip packaged and integrated with a WiFi unit, a Bluetooth unit, and a central processing unit (CPU) as a package component. The CPU receives...