ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,111, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
"System and method for configuring controlling device functionality" was invented by Brian Barnett (Oakland, Calif.), Arsham Hatambeiki (San Diego), Rex Xu (Tustin, Calif.) and Jesus Perez (Costa Mesa, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controlling device is automatically configured to issue a communication directly to a first controllable appliance to control a functional operation of the first controllable appliance in the event that the first controllable appliance is determined to be unresponsive to a command communication transmitted to ...