ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,293, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY LTD. (Suwon City, South Korea).

"Systems and methods for optimal control of smart appliances by energy efficient autonomous systems" was invented by Osvaldo Garcia Contreras (Vancouver, Canada) and Davinder Pal Singh (Coquitlam, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes determining an edge device has entered a control area containing smart appliance(s), accessing sensor data and relative displacement data via sensors of the edge device from the edge device responsive to determining the edge device has entered the control area, wherein...