ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,179, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to High Tech Health International Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for controlling a sauna" was invented by Erik Johnson (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for improving the functionality and operation of a sauna. In one embodiment, a sauna includes an automated warm up mode. Some embodiments may include lowering EMF in a sauna, configuring a sauna over a network, wirelessly controlling and configuring a sauna, as well as a Sauna Cloud system for managing and operating many saunas at potentially many different loca...