US Patent Issued to NexStep on July 21 for "Consumer electronic registration, control and support concierge device and method" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,691, issued on July 21, was assigned to NexStep Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Consumer electronic registration, control and support concierge device and method" was invented by Robert Stepanian (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "We disclose a concierge device that can be configured to register, control and support a consumer device. It can alternatively or redundantly connect to a home management bridge and/or cloud-based management servers. It can accept menus that allow a single concierge device to provide a wide range of functions for various consumer devices. The concierge device allows the user in a single action to in...