US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Singapore) on Oct. 6 for "Remote action authorization" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,721, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Remote action authorization" was invented by Nathan J. Peterson (Oxford, N.C.), Russell Speight VanBlon (Raleigh, N.C.), Arnold S. Weksler (Raleigh, N.C.), Mark Patrick Delaney (Raleigh, N.C.) and John Carl Mese (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device connected to a network of other devices, a user command to initiate an action, wherein the action is associated with a real-world physical object; transmitting, to another device associated with the network, details...