ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,010, issued on May 19, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Control device, terminal, control method, and recording medium" was invented by Naoya Takao (Hyogo, Japan), Hideki Fukuda (Nara, Japan), Shota Kubo (Osaka, Japan), Shiro Iwasaki (Osaka, Japan) and Tomoyuki Okada (Nara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a wireless IF that receives an identification signal wirelessly transmitted by an apparatus, an obtainer that refers to the identification signal received by the wireless IF, and obtains information indicating that software that manages the apparatus a...