ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,386, issued on July 7, was assigned to LUMAFLEX LLC (Minneapolis).
"Standalone controller" was invented by Alain Dijkstra (Amstelveen, Netherlands), John Graham Harper (Minneapolis), Liu Si Yuan (Minneapolis) and Chen Shoufeng (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide a standalone controller for detachably attaching to an electronic device to perform monitoring and control of operational characteristics of the electronic device. The standalone controller includes a housing defining an enclosed cavity, the housing including an upper portion and a lower portion. The standalone controlle...