US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 21 for "Changing operational status of smart device via virtual switch board" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,675, issued on July 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Changing operational status of smart device via virtual switch board" was invented by Girish Padmanabhan (Pune, India), Shailendra Moyal (Pune, India) and Suyash Avinash Gupte (Vasind, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and centralized control system for changing an operational status of a smart device via a virtual switch board (VSB). A determination is made that the operational status of the smart device needs to be changed. A user is located so that the user can perform a user action on the VSB. The ...