ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,710, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and device control using shape clustering" was invented by Torre Michelle Bydlon (Melrose, Mass.), Molly Lara Flexman (Melrose, Mass.), Ayushi Sinha (Baltimore), Aleksandra Popovic (Boston), Grzegorz Andrzej Toporek (Cambridge, Mass.), Alyssa Torjesen (Exeter, N.H.), Marcin Arkadiusz Balicki (Cambridge, Mass.), Vipul Shrihari Pai Raikar (Somerville, Mass.), Ahmet Ekin (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Maha Shady (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer implemented system (C-SYS) and related methods for controlling one or mor...