ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,092, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).
"Iot devices" was invented by Gary Richardson (Anmore, Canada), Colum Duffy (Richmond, Great Britain) and Husham Hamdan (Croydon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an Internet of Things (IoT) device, the IoT device capable of communicating with a third-party system in order to perform an autonomous task subject to authorisation by an IoT authorisation device, the method comprising: sending operating parameters relating to the autonomous task to a user for approval; receiving user-approved operating parameters for t...