ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,373, issued on May 5, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Partially connected devices" was invented by Jean-Philippe Roland Gal (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed herein, which provide an improved way of providing operating instructions to devices such as IoT devices. The disclosure allows for an essentially unlimited number of devices to be controlled via a wireless network. The disclosure does not require pre-planning of the network architecture, nor does it require the number of control devices and end devices to be manually managed or maintain...