ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,238, issued on March 24, was assigned to PPL Services Corp. (Allentown, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for standardized control of remote devices with terminal interface" was invented by Nate Simons (Allentown, Pa.), Robert Beckett (Allentown, Pa.), Donald Vinciguerra (Allentown, Pa.) and Carol Gillette (Allentown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling disparate remote devices includes a control model, the control model providing a standardized interface to a user, the standardized interface providing a plurality of activities. The plurality of activities includes updating access credentials. The control module is ...