ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,390, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).
"Appliance control method, recording medium, and appliance control device" was invented by Ryota Fujimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Shigehiro Iida (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Shimizu (Osaka, Japan), Nobuhiko Wakai (Tokyo) and Yumiko Shinohara (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An appliance control method and appliance control device is disclosed, the appliance control method includes: acquiring a user action of a user and predicting a plurality of action information items about future user actions of the user based on the user...