US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI ZHANGMEN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 8 for "Methods and devices for controlling a smart device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,503, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SHANGHAI ZHANGMEN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Methods and devices for controlling a smart device" was invented by Danian Chen (Shanghai) and Peixi Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a method for controlling a smart device, in which a management device provides a user equipment with information on currently-controllable smart devices. Thus a user can learn actual situation of the currently-controllable smart devices through the user equipment so as to determine a target smart device and send an authorization request for the target smart ...