ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,678, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to iLumi Solutions Inc. (Dallas).
"Wireless control device and methods thereof" was invented by Swapnil Bora (Prosper, Texas), Corey Egan (Austin, Texas) and Qinghui Tang (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: providing a device having a counter that stores a cycle count measuring a number of clock cycles since the device was last turned ON or a timer that stores an elapsed time since the device was last turned ON; (a) flagging a first or additional defined memory location when the cycle count or the elapsed time reaches a first or additional first milestone; (b) unflagging ...