ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,391, issued on July 7, was assigned to Quanta Computer Inc. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).
"External button control system" was invented by Le-Sheng Chou (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Shuen-Hung Wang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Sz-Chin Shih (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Geng-Hao Chang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for a computing device includes a control device configured to be communicatively coupled to an external network; a first actuator coupled to the control device, the first actuator being electronically operable by the control device in response to commands received by the control device via the external n...