ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,377, issued on April 21, was assigned to RESIDEO LLC (Golden Valley, Minn.).

"Method of associating an HVAC controller with an external web service" was invented by Gabriel A. Bergman (New Brighton, Minn.) and Adam Nemcek (Ostrava, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless thermostat may be associated with a user account of an external web service that may facilitate remote access and/or control of the wireless thermostat. A remote device may be used to access a user's account hosted by the external web service. The wireless thermostat may be identified to the external web service and associated with the user's accoun...