US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 25 for "Intelligent brightness lock for smart thermostat" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,602, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Intelligent brightness lock for smart thermostat" was invented by Lucas Vickers (Astoria, N.Y.), Junnosuke Kurihara (Milpitas, Calif.) and Sathya Nanda Gopal Kurcharlapati (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Features described herein pertain to smart thermostats, and more particularly, an intelligent brightness lock for smart thermostats. A smart thermostat can include a display, an ambient light sensor, and a radar sensor. Using the ambient light sensor, ambient light level values of an environment surrounding the smart thermostat can be measur...