ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,761, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to RESIDEO LLC (Golden Valley, Minn.).
"Time-dependent progressive disclosure of information" was invented by Michael Crites (Minneapolis) and Christopher R. Jones (Minneapolis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller device for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system may output, while in a first state, a first user interface for display at a display device, where the first user interface includes first information at a first output size. The controller device may determine, while in the first state and based at least in part on whether an elapsed time since a most recent ind...