US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA on Oct. 6 for "Control method, IoT device, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,282, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Control method, IoT device, and recording medium" was invented by Kakuya Yamamoto (Hyogo, Japan), Yuji Unagami (Osaka, Japan), Naohisa Nishida (Osaka, Japan), Yuuki Hirose (Osaka, Japan) and Junji Michiyama (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method in which each of an Internet of things (IoT) device and a user who uses the IoT device has a digital account includes: obtaining first transaction data for allowing the user who used the IoT device to transfer a first amount corresponding to a usage amount...