US Patent Issued to Universal Electronics on Dec. 16 for "Controlling device configurable to enable selection of one or more services" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,101, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Controlling device configurable to enable selection of one or more services" was invented by Paul D. Arling (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Kurt R. Thielen (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Kuldip Singh Johal (Wokingham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote control is configured by using a service access history associated with at least a one of the remote control and a controllable appliance to determine a first service accessible via use of the controllable appliance that is to be associated with the programmable key and by transmitting to the rem...