ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,877, issued on April 14, was assigned to SOMFY ACTIVITES SA (Nouveau Monde Cluses, France).
"Method and device for controlling the execution of at least one action of an object connected in a communication network" was invented by Laurent Monteremand (Cluses, France) and Frederic Janot (Saint-Sixt, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This method comprises opening (82) a secure connection between a connected building object and a remote controller, implementing a first security certificate of the connected object and a second security certificate of the remote controller, and receiving via said secure connection (42) a command to p...