ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,423, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method, device, and system for controlling state parameter by communicating device" was invented by Arnaud Bouttier (Rennes Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a state parameter by a communicating device, referred to as processing device, in a set of communicating devices, a subset of communicating devices being associated to said processing device, said subset including the processing device and the communicating devices from which the processing device receives data for updating a local value of the state parameter, the pro...