ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,205, issued on April 7, was assigned to Liko Research & Development AB (Lulea, Sweden).

"Devices, systems, and methods for providing remote support to a user of care components" was invented by Neal Wiggermann (Batesville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Assistive control devices, provider assistance systems, systems incorporating the same, and methods for operating the same are disclosed. One system includes an assistive control device and audiovisual communications components communicatively coupled to the assistive control device. The audiovisual communications components are controllable to selectively capture image and audio...