US Patent Issued to TRANSFORM SR BRANDS on April 14 for "Automatically switching communication pathways between connected devices" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,249, issued on April 14, was assigned to TRANSFORM SR BRANDS LLC (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

"Automatically switching communication pathways between connected devices" was invented by Puneet Shivam (Schaumburg, Ill.), Angel Fernando Favila (Lake in the Hills, Ill.) and Nicholas James Shuttleworth (Schaumburg, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for switching communication pathways between a mobile device and connected "Internet of Things" (IoT) device are described to improve scalability and communication between devices. An application on the mobile device may determine whether local or virtual local endpoints are ...