ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,738, issued on May 12, was assigned to May Patents Ltd. (Hod-Hasharon, Israel).

"System and method for server based control" was invented by Yehuda Binder (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Benjamin Maytal (Mevasseret Zion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method in a building or vehicle for an actuator operation in response to a sensor according to a control logic, the system comprising a router or a gateway communicating with a device associated with the sensor and a device associated with the actuator over in-building or in-vehicle networks, and an external Internet-connected control server associated with the control logic ...