US Patent Issued to InstrumentMail on March 3 for "Remote control of article based on article authentication" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,021, issued on March 3, was assigned to InstrumentMail LLC (San Francisco).

"Remote control of article based on article authentication" was invented by Vimal Bhalodia (East Hanover, N.J.), Robb Walters (San Francisco) and Stuart Alexander Jacobson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for remotely controlling an article based on authentication of the article. A communication system with a senor for detecting an interaction event can be coupled to an article. The communication system can be associated with an article identifier. A communication including the article identifier can be received and the identi...